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Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Juan Felipe Herrera, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and more. You can even find poems by occasion, theme, and form.
Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or an emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history, present wherever religion is present, and possibly the primal form of languages themselves.
Nightmare. By Frank Chipasula. Darkness chained me to my tattered reed mat; The head of tyranny sprinkled. The soot of ignorance in my eyes, and sleep. Hammered my head with slogans, Then a nightmare stumbled on my sprawled life, Tripped on the alarm of my heart, And set me singing...
The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.
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There's always room for debate when creating a "top 100" list, and let's face it, fame is a pretty fickle thing. It changes over time. But that said, we did our best to use available objective data in putting together this ranked list of the 100 most widely recognized and enduring poems ever written. To create this list, the following criteria ...
What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems.. In Ecopoetry Now, invited poets engage in an ecopoetic conversation across borders.In poems and poetics statements, their work describes important local differences, including bioregion and language, as well as a shared concern for the Earth.
