By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Amos Bridges, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. I’m especially happy to hear from Amos because he’s the editor-in-chief for the Springfield ...

One key difference is that narrative poems often include some poetic devices such as rhyming, rhythm (by counting syllables) or repetition. A stanza is a group of lines within a poem. A stanza is ...

Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zante. He is best known for having written the Imnos eis tin Eleftherían ("Hymn to ...