Simon Armitage has said he is “excited” to receive the freedom of the City of London, despite being a northerner all his life ...

There aren't many things that one could teach Stevie Nicks about music but two albums from Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills & Nash did just that ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Bimal Roy's 'Devdas', a 1955 classic, is a poignant masterpiece of Indian cinema. Dilip Kumar's portrayal of a doomed lover ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

Friday night: Two days of poetry come to Des Moines when Poetry ... kicks off its Wild Lights Festival with nearly 50 handcrafted, larger-than-life illuminated Asian lanterns.

Spring break has officially dawned for most high school students throughout the Yakima Valley, barely more than two weeks after the spring season itself officially broke on the calendar.

By Tas Tobey Tas Tobey is on the staff of the Book Review and is studying poetry in the M.F.A. program at the City College of New York. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

Judy Collins’ positively extraordinary American life began in Seattle ... I wanted to ask you about your poem “Chopin,” which I take to be about your training as a classical pianist ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...