Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry transcends time, offering readers a glimpse into the depth of human ...

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the community, its people, and its past, present and future. Those poems will ...

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population history, according to a new study.

Poem of the Day: ‘A History’ Tom Hood mocks the breathless tone of memorials and newspaper obituaries. Portrait of Tom Hood, by Elliott & Fry, detail. Via Wikimedia Commons ...

As the season of love approaches, many express their affection through chocolates, teddy bears or love sonnets and poems. One poet, however, stands out from the rest, not just for her reflections ...

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy.

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise ...

Power of some sort or other will go on In games, in riddles, seemingly at random; But superstition, like belief, must die, And what remains when disbelief is gone? —Philip Larkin, “Church Going” Most ...

You've heard of the "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?

“Decapitated Poetry” was formulated with discomfort in mind, explicitly striving to douse the reader in unfiltered, unapologetic, unencumbered gay reality.

Poem of the Day: ‘The History of Honey’ More than a century ago, the Sun published this poem, speaking of ‘the ancient essence of the very sweetest things,’ by an author who turned out to be but nine ...