I see the blade, Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade. Although short, this poem by Jean Toomer is full of metaphors that deliver a profound commentary on death and oppression.

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ...

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What about a book of poetry that reads like a novel, has characters you get to know in poems as long as a paragraph, and which at the end of the book’s 94 pages, will have you gazing out the ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

BOONE — The Watauga County Public Library is hosting a free poetry writing workshop led by Hilda Downer, award-winning poet and inaugural High Country Poet Laureate. The workshop will take place on ...

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Born Zha Liangzheng, he was hailed as the country's "first modern poet" by many experts of modern literature, but his contributions extend beyond poetry ... erupted in full scale in 1937, he ...

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