Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean ...

Ready to get the poetry train rolling? Read these children's poems with your kiddo and unlock the best parts of their imagination. Get Reader's Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more poetry ...

But if you need a quick-acting dose of inspiration, the short poems in this collection have just what you’re looking for. In a couple of minutes—or seconds!—these famous poems will open your ...

Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...

This poem embodies that sort of intense, fleeting crush you get on someone that feels as though you know them from a past life. You know nothing about them, only what you imagine them to be like.

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Slam poetry in Chicago is getting a shot in the arm from Frankie’s Tee, a media platform and talk show founded in 2024. Hosted by west-side natives Tanya “Tee” Smith and Frankie Fabre, Frankie’s Tee ...

“I took the one less traveled by,” declares the speaker of “The Road Not Taken,” perhaps Frost’s most famous poem, after meeting a fork in the path. “And that has made all the difference.