When it comes to poetry about life as a teenager, there needs to be more than one website or blog article to adequately cover the range of poems available. Perhaps that’s because being a young teenager is filled with highly complicated interactions and events. Coupled with that is the fact that most teenage poets produce [...]

We normally think nothing of poems which express love and happiness, or sorrow and grief. But there is another emotion that is common to man-kind . . . hate. I have to admit, this is a topic of poetry which I really have little exposure to. So in preparing to write this article, I did [...]

Some may know her as Marguerite Ann Johnson, but most of the world calls her Maya Angelou. This is one of America’s most notable contemporary poets. But she’s more complex than that. Her list of professions is long and diverse:, author, playwright, civil rights activist, film producer, professor, television producer, film director, actress, dancer, and [...]

H. D. — that’s how most of us know her. Hilda Doolittle was many things: poet, novelist and editor. She was a promoter of the ‘imagist’ model of poetry, which encouraged the use of common speech, idioms and free usage of rhymes. She was a contemporary of such avant-garde writers as Richard Ardington and Ezra [...]

Born Thomas Stearns Eliot, the person we know now as T. S. Eliot was an American turned naturalized British citizen. He was both poet and playwright, and he offered sound literary criticism to his contemporaries. He was also a respected publisher, which rounded out his full understanding of the 20th century literary world. Eliot was [...]