Eric Kapitan’s title Darkness – Poems of Extreme Horror is pretty much a review in and of itself. Kapitan’s collection of horror poems is dark, gore-filled, but in some instances extremely beautiful ...

Echoes of the fantasies of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard resonate through the poems that make up this retrospective collection of macabre verse. Working mostly in basic rhyming quadrameter and ...

MATTOON -- Josh Annis has always been fascinated with legends about werewolves, vampires and other things that people fear might go bump in the night. When the Mattoon resident started writing poetry ...

Warning: The following poem was inspired by “psychobilly” music and by murder ballads. The Cramps were probably the first psychobilly band and their songs are described by Pandora as “conjuring a ...

In honor of National Poetry Month, Slate asked a handful of writers and editors to name a poem they turned to in a time of war. By the time we had gathered their responses, the second Gulf War was ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...