Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

“Yet if hope has flown away, in a night, or in a day. In a vision, or in none, is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.” Those were the resounding words ...

This past year I designed an undergraduate course that I called ‘The Poetry of Love’. One of the challenges of the course was how to define “love”. The English language bundles many different shades ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Emilia Phillips Early in Natalie Diaz’s second book, the speaker has an epiphany that she’s “the ...