Because 'O captain! My captain!' is just the beginning.

Poetry is a form of literature that will, without doubt, outlive us all. Simplistic yet beautiful, poetry is a fun and creative way to express how we’re feeling or how we wish we felt. Sometimes, ...

She has a style all her own that is easy to relate to. Do you ever just look back on all your experiences and see the beauty in them, both good and bad? If I had to guess, I would say most people ...

I love to turn people on to poetry. It's a life-long mission to make people who think poetry is impermeable see how friendly it really is, or can be if you open up your mind to it. Certain subject ...

As a poet, I spend a lot of time defending poetry. People who don't have a natural affinity for the genre tend to write it off as antiquated, impermeable, or just plain stuffy. Non-poets often brush ...

Though almost all of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, from the morbid “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to the uplifting “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers,” were published after her death, she’s ...