Marge Piercy (b. March 31, 1936) is an American feminist poet and novelist who has written 17 books of poetry, including The Moon Is Always Female (1980), which is considered a feminist classic.

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American poet born, like fellow American poet, four years her junior, T.S. Eliot, in St. Louis, MO. Unlike Eliot, she wrote traditional and formally structured lyrics, ...

As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John ...

Three people affected by dementia wrote about their experiences with dementia for World Poetry Day. Read their dementia poems and more. Writing a poem about how you or a loved one has been affected by ...

Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Jake Marmer introduces three poems by Alicia Ostriker. Alicia Ostriker, winner of the ...

Through it all, poetry was the lens through which I could examine and deal with these very emotional and painful times in my life. My life has been touched by cancer in three different ways. A number ...

David Lehman is a poet and an editor for The Best American Poetry series. Three of my favorite poems of 2011 share a sense of mystery and the uncanny — a spooky but also exhilarating glimpse of a ...

Photograph by Ron/Comstock/Jupiterimages/Thinkstock. Click the arrow on the audio player to hear T.R. Hummer read "Imperial." You can also download the recording or ...

Poetry is everywhere, especially in places you would least expect it to be. Even the most mundane texts — be it a news article or street advertising — have poetry within them. Such is the sentiment ...

To explore different types of poetry and write your own haiku poem. This is a chef. He's not going to make food though. No. He is going to make a poem. Stop that!The main ingredient in a poem is words ...