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Whether you’re a lifelong poetry reader or are looking for your first collection to pick up, we’ve got something for you! Our writers cover new poetry, the best poetry for every reader, and more.

Literary Pet Names: Feline Edition

Some great literary pet names for your cat, drawn from lots of different kinds of literature.

Genre Kryptonite: Novels by Poets

This is a guest post from Sean Bell. Sean s a Scots-Irish-Armenian writer based in Edinburgh. His journalism has been published ...

Wearing O’ the Green: Irish Literature for St. Patrick’s Day

In a few days everyone will be Irish and blarney-talking and drinking and shillelagh dragging and wearing o’ the green, ...

Erasure Poetry, HEART OF DARKNESS, and the Language of Conflict

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“Hold Fast to Dreams”: Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes

From “Dreams” (1941) by Langston Hughes, born February 1, 1902.  

Three Williams: My Life With a Trio of Dead Poets

This is a guest post by Rosie Schaap. She has been a bartender, a fortuneteller, a librarian at a paranormal ...

Best of Book Riot: Books to Read When You’re Blue

To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll ...

Best of Book Riot: A Bookish Wedding Retold

How one bookish wedding was planned in the Scottish Highlands

Thoughts About the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Winners

1,156,852 votes were cast this year in the Goodreads Choice Awards. That number makes me so happy it feels like ...

Celebrate Emily Dickinson’s Birthday by Singing Her Poems to the Gilligan’s Island Theme Song

It seems to be a truth almost universally acknowledged that you can sing Emily Dickinson’s poems to “The Yellow Rose ...