Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

We deserve to be on the big stages the way stand-up comedians are,” said Des Moines poet Kelsey Bigelow. “We’re using our stories and our voices. It’s just in a […] ...

Finger Lakes Community College professor Trista Merrill's love of words leads to successful scholarship program.

You can’t force poetry. The words must be born when they are born. They’re all born together like strings of paper dolls ...

For a while, I actually felt kind of embarrassed by this. I thought that somehow I was on a lower intellectual level than everyone else and maybe I just didn’t have that depth. Later on, when I got ...

Music and street theatre group Yalgaar Sanskrutik Manch teams up with Nalanda Arts Studio in ‘Kavan’ to initiate a dialogue ...

This Valentine's Day, don't miss the chance to share a heartfelt verse with that special someone who fills your life with joy ...

Anpotowin Jensen will launch "Hero Dreams Shine" this spring. The book is a collection of 45 poems focusing on themes of Indigneous rescilience and self-empowerment with science woven throughout.

A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...

There are perhaps no more cited words of poetry, at least poetry of a genuinely high order, than the opening stanza of W. B. Yeats’s haunting 1919 poem “The Second Coming.” ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Watch the celebrated actress recite Maria Woodford’s ‘elegy for a nissan micra’ which came out on top in this year’s time-themed contest ...