Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Romantic poetry has the power to capture love in its most profound, passionate, and enduring forms. These poems remind us that love is universal, spanning centuries, cultures, and languages.

Explore a curated list of famous poems that everyone should read, featuring timeless classics and modern masterpieces that inspire and move any reader.

Neruda finds out and the postman says: Poetry does not belong to those who have written it; poetry belongs to those who need it. So that’s what poetry is for. It’s for those who need it.

David Martin won the 2014 CBC Poetry Prize for Tar Swan, a poem about the history and myth of the Alberta oil sands. "It was a different way to think about the oil sands. It's something that we ...

Jane Shi's echolalia echolalia is a collection of poems which focus on experiences of being queer, disabled and in the diaspora. Reflecting on her own identities, the Canadian author wrote about ...

As a lifelong reader of Scientific American, I was tickled to discover a little over a year ago that the magazine had carried poetry in its earliest issues. Volume I, Number 1, for example, dated ...

Of my dreams. This isn’t just one of the best poems for kids—it’s also a poem by a kid. Seriously! Hilda Conkling spent the tender ages of 4 to 14 writing several poetry books.

“Poetry is dead,” writes Koethe, “until it actually is and you want it to come back, whether you liked it or not.” But the art still has its outliers, talking into the advancing dusk.