Emend that. I should move slowly, so as not to startle. “I rode horses as a girl. You slept with them as a boy.” Let’s call ...

Opening the album with a summertime twang, “I Come With Mud” is a Romantic-era poem — complete with lines on love and nature ...

Marshmallow, a miniature therapy horse from Hearts and Hooves Therapy, was a hit with the children at Poway Library’s ...

Likewise, poems such as this one carry us to faraway lands faster than the fastest horse (or, in the words of this poem, “courser”). Emily Dickinson would know—she rarely left her hometown ...

But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful and, for lack of a better term, job-oriented), has his eyes on his mission to found a new city for his people ...

I’ve started taking an improvisational comedy class. I guess I’m at the age now where that’s something I’m not only actively seeking out but am also finding myself enjoying. During my ...

Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted. "FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY" thundered the front page of one British newspaper, condemning the "cascade of expletives".

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

International Women’s Day Poems 2025 is a global event celebrated every year on March 8 to celebrate the love and contributions of women in our lives. Prep your children with these beautiful short ...

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 ...