POETRY

Oscar Wilde, who was famous for his wit, once advised: "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

It eats visitor-suggested words and spits out poems.

Better late than never.

Roses are red, violets are blue. Comic books get made into movies—and poems do, too.

Emerson emerged as one of the preeminent voices of his generation, both in his lifetime and in the annals of history.

Walt Whitman, the famed author of 'Leaves of Grass,' was a bit of a health nut—and really enjoyed hanging out in the nude.

The biting work satirizes Jacobean England, public figures, and religious corruption.

Chemistry makes for some great poetic inspiration.

Researchers working on a book about the poet stumbled on two of her unpublished poems hidden in a notebook.

The verse-loving perp left the poem "Deer" in the meat section atop some venison.

The world-famous playwright and poet was executed by a firing squad during the Spanish Civil War and buried in an unmarked grave.

T.S. Eliot is best known for writing "The Waste Land," but the Nobel Prize winner was also a prankster who coined a perennially popular curse word and created the characters brought to life in the Broadway musical "Cats."