Literature occupies unique position in the society and it has high status in the civilized community. Each ethnic group has unique culture and the culture presents a variety of literary works. Literary works deliver social messages to build harmony in the society. One of the genres of literary works that has vital role in our society is poetry. Based upon the benefit of understanding poetry, this study aims at investigating students' ability in translating poetry and the problem faced by students in translation practices in poetry. The subjects of the study were the students and lecturers of English Department Faculty of Cultural and Humanity Hasanuddin University and English Department Faculty of Languages and Literature Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia. There were 60 students who took part in this study, they were in the 2017/2018 academic year. In this study, we assessed students' translation results of poetries from Horison monthly literary magazine in International Poetry Festival, Indonesia 2002. The research findings revealed that even though the students have passed the English Semantics and English Syntax, they still have problems in poetry translation production. The linguistics difficulties they experienced are lexical and syntactical errors. The educational implication of the study therefore suggests that the students need to be familiarized with literary works, especially poetry which employs figurative languages.