No one would ever mistake Muhammad Ali for a butterfly or a honeybee. And yet poetry uses metaphor to show us how they are ...

This exploration of famous Black poems and their writers highlights the enduring power of poetry to capture the human ...

Inspirational poems that’ll raise your spirits Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry ...

Barry Hill’s new poetry collection Lamb blends insightful, impatient and powerful commentary with grandfatherly reflections on birth and love.

This Dallas-based press has been publishing international books for 12 years. Among its latest releases is this novel from ...

A guqin master provides hands-on instruction to a student on the playing techniques of this ancient Chinese instrument. Photo ...

A rare and historic manuscript of a poem by a famous Scots that was found during a house clearance is expected to fetch up to £1,200 at a Glasgow auction. A section of Address to the Town-Council ...

The Pulitzer Center congratulates the 2025 Fighting Words Poetry Contest winners and finalists!This year's Fighting Words ...

Book review ‘Map of Memories’: Experimental poems resonate with the poet’s identity as migrant, scholar, thinker Ashwani Kumar’s new book of poetry re-views his emotional and cognitive ...

A seven-year-old Minecraft fan has a won a festival poetry competition for children. Myles, from Wymondham, Norfolk, wrote A Friend Like Steve, which he will get to perform on stage to open this ...