Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

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

Today, 5 February, is World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). The Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and Nal’ibali, South Africa’s reading-for-enjoyment campaign, invite you to help spread a love of ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

Literacy is a gift we give our children. It’s reading a poem by, say, Joseph Bruchac and understanding not just the words, ...

Students from around the world saw their space-themed works of pen, paint, and poetry floating in the cupola of the ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet will read at UM and a historian will give insight into York, a Black enslaved member of the ...

NI depression charity AWARE has announced the return of its Express Yourself poetry competition in a bid to shine a light on children’s mental health. The unique initiative aims to inspire ...

In helpless response I wrote “Kindertotenlieder” (“Songs for Dead Children”, its title borrowed from Mahler’s great song cycle: There can be no songs for dead children Near the crazy circle of ...

The best-written poems capture emotions, experiences, or images using a lyrical language. But what exactly is a poem, how is it different from prose, and how should we approach it?

Jamshedpur: AIWC Academy of Excellence School hosted a vibrant Hindi poetry recitation competition, where over 50 students ...