We may earn a commission from your purchases. Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page. He explores what tone and timbre can bring to poems when performing or ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Just one beautiful line of poetry can stay with you forever. So feel inspired with these quotes from poets including Rupi Kaur, Sylvia Plath and Audre Lorde. “Poetry begins with a lump in the ...

If you opened Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, and asked it to write a poem about anti-wokeness like an angsty middle schooler, you'd likely still get something better than the drivel the multi ...

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The Franklin PUD has been sued by two Pasco residents over an election system that they say unfairly and illegally dilutes the vote of Latino residents. The current district map “prevents ...

Amanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for "unity and togetherness" in her self-penned poem. The 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill ...

People posing as Benton PUD employees are trying to pressure folks into bogus solar energy audits. The apparent scam artists have been going door-to-door in Kennewick in the past two days.