• a palinode is a type of retraction poem championed by Chaucer?
• a poem by William Newton led to an end to gibbeting corpses in Derbyshire?
• a poem by Edward Coote Pinkney, a failed lawyer and former Navy midshipman, was used by Edgar Allan Poe to woo Sarah Helen Whitman?
• Red Plague, a poem of Józef Szczepański, commander of Batalion Parasol during the Warsaw Uprising, was banned in the People's Republic of Poland due to its anti-Soviet sentiments?
• despite apparently predicting that future naval warfare would rely on boarding actions, Kipling's satirical poem The Ballad of the "Clampherdown", was taken seriously when published in 1892?
• the 1870 poem "The Heathen Chinee," written by Bret Harte as a satire of racial prejudice, was publicly embraced as a mockery of Chinese immigrants, and shaped anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S. more than any other work at the time?
• upon reading Marshall S. Cornwell's poem "Success," American writer and poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote Cornwell "your gift seems genuine and far above that indicated in verse"?
• the identity of the language or dialect of the Cançó de Santa Fe, a hagiographical poem about Saint Faith, has been debated since the 16th century?
• the earliest surviving ensenhamen (an Occitan didactic poem) was written by the troubadour Garin lo Brun around 1155?
• the wife of troubadour Raimon Jordan joined the sect of the Cathars, while the troubadour himself declared in a poem that he would give up eternity in Paradise for one night with his desired lady (not his wife)?
• Chidiock Tichborne wrote his only known poem on the eve of his execution for treason?
• Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public?
• Jonathan Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" is considered by many, including Swift himself, to be his best poem?
• James Russell Lowell's satirical poem A Fable for Critics (1848) made fun of many poets of the day, including himself?
• Indian actress Kamalinee Mukherjee's poem was selected for an international poetry contest in Washington, D.C. just before she began her acting career in the Telugu film industry?
• Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is a poem written in heroic couplets?
  
• Jonathan Swift's (pictured) 1709 poem "A Description of the Morning", which discusses contemporary life in London, provided inspiration for William Hogarth's series of paintings Four Times of the Day?
• Stevie Smith's most famous poem, "Not Waving but Drowning", describes a man who drowns because onlookers mistake his thrashing for waving?
• William Butler Yeats wrote the poem "A Prayer for My Daughter" in 1919 while staying in the tower at Thoor Ballylee during the Irish War of Independence?
• William Butler Yeats originally published the poem "On being asked for a War Poem" under the title "A Reason for Keeping Silent" in 1916?
• William Butler Yeats intended the poem "Politics" to be an envoi to "The Circus Animals' Desertion" and for it to be last in his final collection of poems?
• "A Supermarket in California" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg published in 1956 and dedicated to Walt Whitman in the centennial year of the first edition of Leaves of Grass?

Facts on topics related to Poem

Poetry

• Egyptian poet Farouk Shousha has described the decline in the quality of Arabic in Egypt as "an issue of national security"?
• poet Robert Hass, a two-term American Poet Laureate, is a neighbor of Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz?
• British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament?
• Andrew Carroll went on a 1998 nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops, hospital waiting rooms and train stations?
• Charles Wilfred Orr wrote more settings of A. E. Housman's poetry than any other composer?
• Thomas Bancroft's Times out of Tune (1658) includes verses against whoring, gluttony, alcoholism, hedonism, lying, pride in clothing, betrayal, ambition, cowardice, and the abuse of poetry?
• Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
• Urdu literature is dominated by poetry, often of the ghazal form?
• Western Ganga literature included Kannada poetry and prose written by royalty, on topics ranging from religion to elephant management?
• a cento is a poetic work composed entirely of verses taken from other authors?

Anthology

• A Perfect Vacuum, a 1971 book by Polish author Stanisław Lem, is an anthology of imaginary reviews of nonexistent books?
• Leaving Springfield is a non-fiction anthology of essays analyzing the impact of the television program The Simpsons on society?
• New Writings in SF is the earliest of the notable science fiction anthology series published in the 1960s and 1970s?
• The God Stealer is the most anthologized short story written by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil José?
• early in his short acting career Tod Griffin played George Washington and Patrick Henry on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series?
• the 1955–56 NBC series Frontier was only the second western anthology program on television, preceded by Death Valley Days?

Rhyme

• the Calvinist philosopher and New Testament scholar Vern Poythress argues that mathematics is the rhyme of the universe?

Poet

• Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley's poem "Little Orphant Annie" was first published in the Indianapolis Journal?
• Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika was the first person to write in free verse in Arabic?
• Jamaican-born poet, playwright and screenwriter Evan Jones wrote the 1963 BBC television play Madhouse on Castle Street in which Bob Dylan made his acting début?
• Kavirajamarga, the earliest extant literary work in the Kannada language, was written by King Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar?
• poet Anna Williams's works include On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon ?
• poet Forceythe Willson believed he was clairvoyant and that he could serve as a medium for communication with the dead?
• poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo wrote haikus while she and her family were detained in Japanese American internment camps during World War II?
• poet and playwright Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (pictured), known as the Polish Sappho, discussed topics such as abortion, extra-marital affairs, and incest?
• Russian avant-garde poet and singer-songwriter Alexei Khvostenko is often referred to as the "grandfather of Russian rock"?
• Russian philologist Mikhail Gasparov was also a poet, but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?

Prose

• theologian and preacher Carl Fredrik Wisløff's 1946 book I Know in Whom I Believe was recognized in 2008 as one of Norway's most influential books of prose?
• the first major work published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, was a book of prose sketches inspired by Washington Irving?