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On her Substack on Monday, Rosie shared a 30-stanza poem to respond to Chelsea’s petition to change her last name. The piece was titled “My Child Chelsea.” “She wishes to change her last ...

Check out these Canadian poetry collections we're excited about in spring 2025! If you're interested in poetry, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. You can submit an ...

Wu explains that the sound of a poem can create the same satisfaction as a resolved musical phrase (thanks, mesolimbic striatal system). You can memorize a stanza, like a mantra, if you like—or you ...

*“Wrote the song with two of my great friends…a story song,” said Nashville based Country singer Trey Calloway about his new single “The Ballad of Righteous and Wrong.” “For some ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of need. Either way, I’d love to know why it matters to you.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?