Ashley Moyo wrote her first poem at age 9 for a school assignment about glasses. She continued using poetry throughout her education, including as a Model United Nations member in high school, when ...

Illustrator Lili Chin became fascinated with dog behavior in 2008 after her Boston terrier, Boogie, bit their landlord and ...

"Sun on the Muddy," a new book of poetry, has been published by Armenti, accompanied by photos from local photographer Dave ...

April is National Poetry Month. Celebrated across the U.S. and Canada, the observance spreads appreciation and awareness for ...

Randle Chowning, founder of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, writes about songs that tell a story and shares one based on a ...

Mayor of Wrexham, Cllr Beryl Blackmore and author Diane Saxon at the launch of the Wrexham Carnival of Words. The launch event also featured the announcement of the winner of the annual 2025 Murder ...

Maya Angelou didn’t hold back. From defying racism to reclaiming womanhood, her fiercest words still cut through noise and ...

There’s something about Han of Stray Kids that feels like déjà vu. Like a character you’ve seen before—staring into the dark just before a show, half-composed, half-collapsing.

Like an ageing rock band contracted for one last farewell tour, in Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s back playing the hits.

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what might take many more words to express — far less memorably — in prose,” ...

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?