Make your heart sing and your eyes water. Nayyirah Waheed is an Instapoet who shares her insights and thoughts of the world through poetry she shares on Instagram. With over 460k followers, and more ...

Emily Dickinson, whose birthday was December 10, 1830, was a poet known for her reclusive lifestyle. Many of us today, being increasingly reclusive ourselves, have grown to appreciate the incredible ...

Homer, the enigmatic author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, profoundly shaped Western literature. Despite his immense influence ...

This short poem grapples with so many themes at once — seeing, being seen, desire, racism, selfhood and memory. The poem starts in a matter-of-fact fashion with a declarative, “I don’t like being ...

This haunting poem depicts an elusive, dangerous figure of overwhelming destructive power The Man in the Wind The man in the wind who keeps us awake tonight is not the black monk of the wind cowering ...