Some poems earn their place in a syllabus. This one

You’ve probably heard this line even if you’ve never read

The Ithaca poem has confused readers for over a century

An old man wants to leave his body and turn

Walter de la Mare wrote “The Listeners” in 1912, and

"Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou is six stanzas, two birds,

Maya Angelou's poem Caged Bird speaks to anyone who has

You’ve read it before, maybe in a classroom, maybe on

There is a reason an eight-line poem written in 1923

I have written poetry for years, and the one thing

I wrote my first ode in a beat-up notebook at

Some poems stay with you because they arrived at exactly