An English professor at Hood College won an award for her upcoming poetry collection. Elizabeth Knapp received the 3 Mile Harbor Book Award for her poetry collection “Causa Sui,” which is ...

Mir’s select poetry in English: political perspective But selecting only 72 as best out of more than 13,000 couplets that are preserved in six volumes of Mir’s kulliyaat, or complete oeuvre ...

For contrast, in the English-speaking world, even Pulitzer Prize-winning poets often struggle to fill modest conference halls at poetry readings; an audience of ten thousand would be the stuff of ...

In 1999, UNESCO named March 21 World Poetry Day. Since then, it has been celebrated every year and recognized by those who value poetry in their lives or acknowledge its importance in the history ...

My Bloody Valentine have announced their first UK headline tour in over 10 years. Find out the details below. The news of the shows comes just months after the iconic shoegaze pioneers confirmed a ...

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.

A man suspected of shooting and killing his wife outside of a pub on Valentine's Day died from massive head trauma, an inquest has heard today. Edward Smith, 43, is believed to have gunned down ...

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 ...

When studying in school, Zhang said it was initially hard to connect to English poetry because he had a Chinese background and the cultural significance didn’t translate. He compared it to when he was ...

Matthias dela Cruz as she reads her poem "Eldest Daughter" at the English Majors and Minors club open mic. (Valerie Schultz) An open mic poetry event focusing on the complexities of love with the ...