The lines kept playing in my mind, like a song. I asked a few people, neighbors, street sellers, drivers, ’What are you going ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...

With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

Sophie Butler, 40, lost her mam, Rita Oxman, to bowel cancer in 2021 and has since written a book of poems in her honour ...

Heart Barabad, a Grade 12 student at KEC, took home second place honours at the Centre Theatre for Performing Arts in ...

The brain trust met again and got on the subject of poetry. Poetry wasn’t the beginning of this meeting. It seems that one of ...

In 17th-century English poetry, lustful swains (often shepherds, for some reason) are always beseeching their beloveds to “make much of time” and get busy. Andrew Marvell, whose couplets we ...

A standout of the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, Simón Mesa Soto’s 'A Poet' manages to successfully mesh together ...

April was National Poetry Month, and to celebrate, the Lee County Arts Council sponsored a Blackout Poetry Contest. It was the first year for the contest, and on Thursday the winners were honored in a ...

Award-winning poet, wildland firefighter, and co-founder of Left Margin Lit, Rachel Richardson has a new book, “Smother.” ...

Kathleen Driskell, Kentucky's new poet laureate, has spent decades teaching the next generation of writers at Louisville's ...

The countdown is on to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life in Sunderland, with just two weeks to go until the big day a local ...