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 ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

The best-written poems capture emotions, experiences, or images using a lyrical language. But what exactly is a poem, how is it different from prose, and how should we approach it?

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black poetry has always been a powerful medium through which African Americans have expressed their pain, joy, struggle, and triumph. From the times of slavery to the present day ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Walter Bargen, who lives in Ashland, Missouri. Walter started reading poetry in eighth grade English class and started writing his own poems in high ...