Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

It was a truly hectic Sunday, May 25, for the American-born pope, as he visited the two major basilicas: St. John Lateran and ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

On the special occasion of Mother’s Day 2025, here are some heartfelt poems you can draw inspiration from, whether to add to a card, send in a message, or simply remind your mom how much she means to ...

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A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...

That nuance is at the core of Loryn Brantz's new poetry collection, Poems of Parenting. The illustrated poems are based on Brantz's popular series of Instagram posts that give parents permission ...

A new bilingual collection of poems celebrating Wales' rivers gives Welsh and English "equal weight" to encourage poets to write in their first language. Fifty poets from Wales each write about ...

A Ming Dynasty woodblock-printed illustration from "Sancai Tuhui" (in English, Compendium of the Three Powers), compiled by Wang Qi (1573–1620), which is a 49-volume book of poems on birds and animals ...

A Ming Dynasty woodblock-printed illustration from Sancai Tuhui (in English, Compendium of the Three Powers), a 49-volume book of poems on birds and animals compiled by Wang Qi (1573–1620).