As a festival in London celebrates the art of love poetry, Lucy Scholes discovers how writers around the world express emotions through verse. Love, as we all know, is a many-splendoured thing. Quite ...

Of all the greatest poets that have ever written, which is the least known to American readers? I would join many others who point to Tu Fu (a.k.a. Du Fu). He wrote 16 centuries ago during the Tang ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and the author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” LONDON — In the south transept of Westminster Abbey — ...