Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

The Atlantic magazine introduced many now-classic works by writers including Longfellow, Whitman and Frost.

It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.

The book, described online as "comical poetry," meant to "strip the pretentiousness of poetry in a funny and enlightening way ...

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While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

The Publication of Kunjana Parashar’s They Gather Around Me, the Animals (in June 2025), is nothing less than a cultural ...

A Visit from St. Nicholas' is one of America's most beloved poems. But few can have read it carefully. If they had, our idea ...

Prince Charles and Spike Milligan were so close that he confided in Spike's son long after his favourite funnyman had died, saying what he really thought of Paul Burrell ...

He does not come only to be worshiped; He comes to change us—to make us wonderful. Jesus: The Wonder Who Came Down Jesus is a wonder because: in Jesus, the Infinite becomes finite, God enters the ...

Here & Now ‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Evan Wang, the first young man to be named the National Youth Poet Laureate by the literary group Urban Word. His love for poetry began in his early teens, ...

The suicide of popular Russian poet Sergei Esenin generated an outpouring of shock and grief throughout the USSR and beyond.