Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

"Penguin Poets" has released two new poetry books, "The Space Between Men" by Mia S. Willis and "Is This My Final Form?" by ...

As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I ...

Write a bunch of poems about his beloved sport of baseball, and how the sport is a metaphor for both our lives, and his life.

If you still need some help writing limerick poems, don't fret—we have some famous limerick examples below for inspiration.

Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to ...

Wildwood listed becoming a parent and his children as some of the inspiration for "Sun Ripened Fun Ideas." The book contains ...

As one example, “Surely I Am Able to Write Poems ... rather than a full-sized collection, but this little book of prose poems truly sings. Organized into “lessons,” with a prelude, interlude ...

Patrycja Humienik’s debut poetry collection, “We Contain Landscapes,” explores chronic illness, climate change, borders and inheritance ...

Last year, sales of poetry books reached £14.4 million – their highest since accurate official figures from BookScan began a decade ago. But what's making more Brits turn to verse and why are ...