Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

Poetry Day is a celebration of poetry for everyone, everywhere. It’s a day when poetry takes to the streets. It’s a chance for you to use poetry to say things that can’t be said in prose. They mean an ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential ...

Robert Burns wrote his first poem aged 15. By the time of his death in 1796, aged just 37, the Bard of Ayrshire had completed around 220 works of poetry. “He’s a man who worked hard on all fronts ...

There's a kind of romantic myth around poets that the good ones die young. In this program we'll hear the work of Dylan Thomas, Jennifer Rankin, Keith Douglas, Rupert Brooke, Lord Byron, Sylvia Plath, ...

World Poetry Day 2016 is here in celebration of the unique ability of poetry to capture the creative spirit of the human mind. There is nothing better than spreading the power of language through ...