It’s a great example of a Mother’s Day poem that shows how precious mothers can be. I wants to go somewhere. I went down to de station. Ma heart was in ma mouth. Went down to da station.

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Poetry essentially is figurative language, concentrated so that its form is both expressive and evocative. Figuration is a departure from the literal, and the form of a great poem itself can be a ...

Once when I confessed to him that nothing in the later poems moved me like some of the great passages in the earlier editions, he replied: "I am not surprised. I do not suppose I shall ever again ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

And so arrived a Great Leader, he was a conqueror, an explorer, a discoverer, a tyrant, Christopher Columbus of the modern world, a Vasco da Gama of real estate, his desire was to own the world—many ...