Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns or lyrics.

Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy.[1] Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition and rhyme, and emphasised the aesthetics which distinguish poetry
...more

Goldenrod: Poems
The Collection Plate: Poems
Born in a Second Language
The River in the Belly
The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse
More Anon: Selected Poems
A Love Story
LOVABILITY
A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line
Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul
Wolf Lamb Bomb
The Things We Don't See
Look I Bought Plants: And Other Poems About Life and Stuff
What Water Knows: Poems
Rez Dogs
  • Spin a Circle! by Raven Howell
    Spin a Circle!
    by

    Release date: Mar 23, 2021
    We're giving away 10 author signed print copies of the colorful children's picture book, SPIN A CIRCLE (dyslexic inclusive). Enter today! ...more
    View Details »

    Format: Print book

    Giveaway ends in: a

    Availability: 10 copies available, 1469 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Aug 14 - Aug 28, 2021

    Countries available: U.S.

  • Outward Arrangements by Francis DiClemente
    Outward Arrangements: Poems
    by

    Release date: Apr 03, 2021
    I am running a Kindle ebook giveaway for my poetry book Outward Arrangements. Enter today!
    View Details »

    Format: Kindle book

    Giveaway ends in: a

    Availability: 100 copies available, 274 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Aug 01 - Aug 30, 2021

    Countries available: U.S.

  • The Divine Comedy by Gerald J. Davis
    The Divine Comedy: The New Translation by Gerald J. Davis
    by

    Release date: Jul 01, 2021
    Enter for a chance to win one of one hundred Kindle editions of THE DIVINE COMEDY: THE NEW TRANSLATION. Complete and Unabridged.
    View Details »

    Format: Kindle book

    Giveaway ends in: a

    Availability: 100 copies available, 471 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Aug 01 - Aug 30, 2021

    Countries available: U.S.

  • Home Body
    The Sun and Her Flowers
    Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
    Starfish
    World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
    The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
    Punching the Air
    In the Wild Light
    Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel
    I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
    Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank
    Cat Kid Comic Club
    Here Is the Beehive
    101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
    Alone
    Becoming by Michelle ObamaEducated by Tara WestoverWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
    What We've Read So Far in 2019
    6,708 books — 648 voters
    Paradise Lost by John MiltonDuino Elegies by Rainer Maria RilkeThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Cantos by Ezra PoundThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
    Poetry
    809 books — 506 voters

    Transcending Depression by Larry GodwinMore Than Love, A Husband's Tale by Peter B. ForsterSurviving Chaos by Harold PhiferOf the Flame, Poems - Volume 15 by Wendy E. SlaterBlind Pony by Samantha   Hart
    Inspiring Books For All Ages
    1,023 books — 839 voters
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHell's Gate by Benjamin DanielsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenWild by Cheryl Strayed
    My Favorite Books of 2012
    462 books — 500 voters

    Love Least Expected by Meredith BondForever Friends by Shelagh WatkinsEnd of the Road by Jacques  AntoineGetting Lucky by J.L. BeckThe Adventure of Creation by Holly Lisle
    Best Anthologies
    1,013 books — 810 voters

    Milk and Honey
    Where the Sidewalk Ends
    The Sun and Her Flowers
    The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
    Leaves of Grass
    Ariel
    A Light in the Attic
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    Howl and Other Poems
    The Odyssey
    The Poet X
    Beowulf
    Paradise Lost
    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    Shakespeare's Sonnets

    Related Genres

    Related News

    This June, as we observe LGBTQ Pride—the annual celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning communities—we...
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “ Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun. ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien

    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “ I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ”
    ― Sarah Williams

    More quotes...
    Early American Literature Some of the world's greatest literature was written in America, from its colonial beginnings thr…more
    78 members, last active 9 hours ago
    உயிர் காகிதம் இந்தக் குழுமம் கீழ்வரும் தலைப்புகள் சார்ந்த பதிவுகளுக்காக மட்டும் ஏற்படுத்தப் பட்டிருக்கிறது. …more
    3 members, last active 49 days ago
    For Love of a Book This group was created to connect lovers of stories across the internet with their characters an…more
    4,498 members, last active 2 hours ago
    This group is for poetry lovers
    1 member, last active 21 days ago
    !~Starcrossed lovers~!~~>> Yours For Eternity
    6 chapters — updated May 13, 2015 06:35PM — 0 people liked it
    Little Angel Was My Muse
    3 chapters — updated Jun 01, 2016 04:12PM — 99 people liked it

    Tags

    Tags contributing to this page include: poetry, genre__poetry, poems, poesia, poesía, and poetry-books