Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

April is National Poetry Month, and the Free Library of Philadelphia is offering a variety of events and programs to honor ...

Poets and artists will join in sight and sound Saturday at the Parkersburg Arts Center. In honor of National Poetry Month, ...

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

Young performers showcased Haiti’s culture through dance, music, songs and poetry at the second edition of Festival de l’Identité in Cap-Haïtien. This is a display of photos and videos from the event ...

This Friday, you may just run into Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday at Proof Lancaster, or Sylvia Plath at the Lancaster Art ...

BELLOWS FALLS — The Rockingham Free Public Library continues its collaboration with cooperatively-owned Flat Iron Coffeehouse to present poetry and music this Saturday, March 29, from 3 to 5 p.m. In ...

The Corporation of St. George’s hosted Bermuda’s UNESCO World Poetry Day 2025 at King’s Square, with students from four schools – St George’s Prep, East End Primary, Francis Patton Prima ...

Latitude Festival's poetry competition for young writers is expanding across East Anglia in 2025. The contest, which was first launched in 2024 with BBC Radio Suffolk, will now also include BBC ...

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she was one of the few women on the Swiss slam poetry scene, and her texts on female sexuality and women’s rights were often considered shocking and impertinent. “It’s a well-known saying that what is ...

On World Poetry Day, actor Siddhant Chaturvedi recalls writing his first poem at 15. It was his own version of Daffodils by William Wordsworth. Siddhant Chaturvedi’s love for poetry has been a ...