Defining the word poem isn’t that simple. Basically, it’s any collection of written or spoken words that have some sort of lyrical quality, rhythm, and/or structure that’s less straightforward than a ...

London, England (WHTM) On this day in 1609, a publisher named Thomas Thorpe went to Stationers’ Hall to register a new book. The Worshipful Company of Stationers, aka Stationers’ Company, was a ...

Sonnets by William Shakespeare for the iPad is the new high-water mark for what we can and should expect from a deluxe digital edition of a great work of literature. Sonnets by William Shakespeare for ...

Oliver de la Paz’s poem is part of a series of “diaspora sonnets,” in which this one, along with others, create a whole, while each sonnet can still operate on its own. These sonnets don’t have all ...

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), who needs no introduction on a poetry page, was considered the greatest English poet — and perhaps one of the greatest poets of any language — to put pen to paper. The ...

An Afternoon in My Mind, Sonnet Mondal's seventh book of poems, makes readers relive childhood memories, mental struggles to overcome futuristic thoughts, heal cracks of darkness, and battle till the ...

Researchers have revealed an AI that they hope will one day write a perfect Shakespearean sonnet. Researchers at IBM used created a sonnet writing AI. They trained it using 2600 sonnets taken from a ...

Love poems didn’t start as private confessions. For much of their history, they were closer to public performances—tools for politics, status, ...