Joyce Kilmer wrote one of the most famous%2C most beloved%2C most parodied poems His ode to trees is known by almost everyone%2C critic said But rote memorization of poetry is on the way out in ...

He loved poetry. He wanted me to read mine, but I couldn’t write fast enough, so I’d bring books of poetry with me. When I wasn’t in a pose, I would read poetry to him. After about 20 years, we ...

The man who regularly trims trees and cuts down dead ones at our cottage found a tree he thought might need to go. I wasn’t there, but my sister was. Even though she’s part-owner, he said, “Call your ...

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) had a talent — perhaps the greatest in the history of English poetry — for making difficult verse look simple, as the Sun pointed out when Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty ...

In Dreams in Vantablack, streaming now on CBC Gem, 12 Black youth poets reach within to make sense of a world that has often silenced them. As the animated poems unravel, viewers get a front row seat ...