These short Easter poems reflect a Christian perspective on the holiday, making them great options for children's church and ...

What makes contemporary poets so oddly, and even perversely, attracted to Dante Alighieri? Like the scores of acquaintances ...

Poetry can help us encounter the mystery at the heart of the matter without being destroyed.

Christian poetry has been defined as “any poetry that contains Christian teachings, themes, or references. The influence of Christianity on poetry has been great in any area that Christianity ...

D.N. “This Is Not a Small Voice” by Sonia Sanchez Adrian Neibauer’s fifth grade students in Colorado have loved this “short and powerful” poem. As not-quite-tweens, Neibauer said his students “are ...

Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short ...

These extremely short pieces, published in 2018, fall somewhere between fierce poetry and story. The 300 stories are neither plotted nor linear; instead, you’ll feel as if you’ve walked into a ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Shel Silverstein was a master of linguistic mischief, using repetition and creative wordplay to amuse and prepare kids for ...

The poet Semyon Nadson (1862 - 1887) lived for 24 years. He is known for being the first poet of Jewish descent to achieve ...

Percival Everett’s “James,” Salman Rushdie’s “Knife” and Diane Seuss’ “Modern Poetry” are among the ... old artist whose road trip is cut short for a torrid affair.

When poet Hayden Carruth’s 1992 book Collected Shorter Poems arrived at the press’s ... he ultimately came up short. He said, “They did not understand the problem, ”the problem being ...