We may earn a commission from your purchases. Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries revisits the eerie Mothman legend, focusing on theories about the mystical winged creature. The ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page. He explores what tone and timbre can bring to poems when performing or ...

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. The Mothman Festival is back, drawing thousands of visitors from all over the world to gather on Main Street in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to celebrate the legendary ...

It's a busy time to be Jeff Wamsley, the owner and creator of the world’s only Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, West ...

“It began with me having very outlandish ideas,” she recently recalled. “At one point, I thought we should rent a plane, and put poetry on little native seed packets that would fly out of the plane ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. The Mothman Festival is back, drawing thousands of visitors from all over the world to gather on Main Street in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to celebrate the legendary ...

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Love Letter ...