Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

In between the funny poems, I share serious poems about kindness, respect, and inclusion (and science and math and social studies); the funny poems help to keep the kids “with” me. When they ...

Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you? Part joke, part poetry, funny roses-are-red ...

Rather, he favours what is desperately funny ... and give his poems their powerful and unsettling sound, that are here now distilled and given form. This is the introduction to 80 at 80, a ...

Colm Tóibín on poet Paul Durcan turning 80: ‘Beside the wildness, there is tenderness’Opens in new window ] While the poems are often heartbreaking in their depictions of human frailty ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...