"No one ever believes me, but here goes. When I was in college, I shared a room with a friend of mine from high school. One ...

The Bar Association of Serbia called a thirty-day strike due to the erosion of the legislature’s integrity. On 6 March, the ...

Poetry written especially for children is perfect for those developing brains: because poems for children tend to be short, ...

Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...

There are some guarantees with the Typewriter Rodeo, including, almost every year, we’ll have a back-to-school poem, a ...

Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month. In honor of that occasion, please enjoy the official state poem of the ...

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

Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain,” in which a poet falls ill and confronts mortality, the meaning of art and the failures of health care, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction on Monday.

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

Corey Dixon was found guilty of Attempted 1st-degree Murder and Prisoner in Possession of a Deadly Weapon in connection with the brutal 2021 attack of inmate Michael Bradley, who suffered ...

The author and poet Michael Rosen introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The space on the page The 'space' is a ‘friend’ to whom Michael Rosen can tell anything.

Fool’s Day. The rains had fallen upon Nairobi, washing away the dust of months past. A new season was upon the city, a season of departure and renewal. It was the end of the first term and students ...