21. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi master born in 1207, is the best-selling poet in the United States. A compelling figure in poetry, Rumi's poems articulate what it feels like to be alive.

22. Poet George McDonald (1824-1905) wrote a two-word poem called "The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs." It reads "Come Home."

23. According to author Lizzie Doten, the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe provided her with the poems that she published in "Poems from the Inner Life."

24. Metrophobia is the fear of poetry.

25. Metromania is the compulsion to write poetry.

26. The epitaph on American poet Emily Dickinson's grave stone consists of two words: "called back."

27. Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" is considered to be an iconic expression of the 1950s Beat Generation. Its frank portrayal of sex, suicide, and drugs was so scandalous that the publisher was imprisoned for distributing obscene material.

28. The world's shortest poem is a one-letter poem by Aram Saroyan. It is simply a four-legged version of the letter "m." The meaning of the poem is uncertain, though some scholars describe it as a "closeup of a letter being born."

29. William Shakespeare is the best-selling poet of all time. With over 4 billion book sales globally, his surviving works include approximately 40 plays, 150 sonnets, 2 long-story poems, and a few eulogies.

30. With over 113 publications, Lee Bennett Hopkins (1938) is considered to be the most prolific poet of the modern era.

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