To celebrate National Poetry Day we've rounded up the best poems for reading at weddings, funerals and other occasions.

While poetry might seem like the realm of intellectuals, this literary domain is vast, encompassing everything from the love poems we send our sweethearts on Valentine's Day to the funeral poems ...

It was the night before the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II ... To everyone's delight, the man read a poem he had written about the late Queen's 70-year reign. In a fitting tribute, he spoke ...

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Dannye Romine Powell on Monday, July 6, 2015. Powell, a poet and former longtime Charlotte Observer book editor and columnist ...

It wasn't meant to be sent to her, but drawing on her people-reading skills as a tarot card reader, she decides to attend the funeral ... poems, along with letters, articles, criticism. The Best ...

The Hong Kong writer’s penchant for transforming taboo subjects—death, illness, or gender—into fodder for intellectual ...

Just under a thousand new collections of verse are published each year, in addition to a myriad of new poems printed in magazines ... reviewers to recommend the best books. But the general press ...

For almost 200 years, they have carried Britain’s post up and down the country, becoming part of the fabric of the nation.

Atwood, who was promoting her new poetry collection, Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems ... of my funeral as a fun time for kids.” The Booker Prize winner was also asked about her best defense ...

When Danny Clipp came to terms with the cancer he knew would end his life, he wrote a poem for his family. Then he handed it over to the musicians who knew him best, challenging them to put his ...

A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics' will be hosted at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on Halloween ...