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

Writing poetry is not as simple as many think ... now than ever to maintain spaces for Native writers and people as diversity, equity and inclusion programs are disappearing.

Five ways to celebrate National Poetry Month Here are a few simple ways you can activate your brain’s built-in language appreciation system this month. That said, reading poetry can feel like swimming ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices ... It amazes me now to think about how simple my life is right now, and by simple ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

"It looks simple - and it is, but that's why it's brilliant," they said. Of course, McGough, who rose to poetry prominence in the late 1960s, is still going strong at 87. Dead Poets continued ...

If you’ve ridden the Toronto subway lately, you may have stumbled upon an unexpected bit of poetry in the ad space on the car. Maybe it was a haiku by Martin Gomes about the eternal nature of ...

South African poetry, rich with history ... to indicate points of continuity while insisting on the diversity of the South African experience. Deep South Books After 30 years of publishing ...

The thematic diversity ... Nigah’s poetry creates a lasting impression on the reader’s mind through the use of subtle expressions, everyday images of domesticity, and simple but surely not ...

You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?