McCrae has been exploring the afterlife in his poetry for several years now, and here his reimagining of Dante’s Inferno is ...

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 ...

The Intentions of Thunder” includes poems from Smith’s nine collections, as well as new and previously uncollected poems that ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

The Letters of Robert Frost: Volume I, 1886-1920, is the first of four volumes of the poet's letters to be published, and shows Frost as we've never seen him before. Two of the editors of the book, ...

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 ...

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It can be hard to know exactly what to say to someone you care about but, thankfully, the great poets have written plenty of beautiful lines about love. For Valentine's Day 2021, here's our selection ...