If you ever want to move your child out from the digital world and give them at least a part of your own personal childhood experience, check our list for 9 classic poems for children to memorize. The ...

Photograph by Matzei/Wikimedia Commons. At this time of year Slate has in the past presented classic poems about Christmas and New Year's Day. For 2012, here is a poem set at, and in some sense about, ...

Spring is one of the most popular seasons and a favourite among the writers and poets as its beauty fires up their imagination like no other season. It signifies new life, bringing a lot of happiness ...

Thanks to her books of poems and her Instagram posts, Rupi Kaur is one of the most famous poets alive. However, she wasn’t always a fan of poetry. Here’s a look at her favorite book of poems and how ...

“Sonnet 29” is a favorite of mine because it makes me laugh about unhappiness—my own and Shakespeare's. An occupational hazard of poets is feeling oneself an unappreciated outsider. One compares ...

Get Lit-Words Ignite, a leading Los Angeles-based nonprofit that fosters literacy by engaging at-risk youth in literary performance, education, and teen poetry programs, hosted the nation’s very first ...

August-borns are full of confident pride and self-renewal. Angelou's poem mirrors your strong soul, whether you're a ...