Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

Like many of Shakespeare’s other works, this is a love poem for a woman or man who enriched the poet’s life. The opening ...

Illness streaks across this poem from his final collection — but also love. By Jay Hopler Selected ... one that documents his journey on the other end of a life, as he grapples with a terminal ...

By Joshua Clover Selected by Anne Boyer Joshua Clover’s “My Life in the New Millennium” begins with a thorny, if familiar, either/or. Then the poem moves quickly to accrue its juxtapositions ...

Her verses revolve around the loss of love and the feeling of defeat that comes with its absence. It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful ...

So the poem ends. In every long love, the emotional part undergoes a change as the stages of life are lived through. Marriage begins like a bonfire that melts and merges us: our togetherness wants ...

Love. Art. Community. That’s it. The people that don’t bring me joy or peace? Edited out of the poem that is my life. The work that felt like it was not the best use of my time and talents?

Bell has never had a shilling life but the poems remain original and full of ... Italian opera was his love. The great tragic aria combined with the buffoonery of below stairs was his natural ...

Dead Poets continued: "The poem is called '40 Love' from his book, After The Merrymaking, which contains multiple relationship and break-up kind of poems." In the book, 40 Love is spread across a ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...