The Laredo Public Libraries are now accepting submissions for the 23rd annual Poetry Festival, inviting students and adults ...

Urdu poetry has always lived through the human voice. Its power lies not just in what is said, but in how it sounds ...

You might wonder where poems come from. I’d like to write a poem, you think. But what should I write about? From poet Sharon Olds: “What you know that I don’t know is what you can tell me in a poem.

On Nov. 3, Tina Chang, Brooklyn’s first female Poet Laureate, gave a Morris Gray Poetry Reading at the Barker Center.

Seven students from East Central University presented their original poetry at Wednesday Night Poetry on Nov. 12, six of ...

Poetry is my freedom song and I celebrate it,” declares Rajathi Samsudeen, popularly known by her pen name Salma, who wrote ...

Long before Jessie Reyez was celebrated for her voice, poetry was the Toronto-bred musician’s “first love.” The Grammy-nominated and Juno Award winner’s music often feels like spoken poetry, backed by ...

The prolonged absence of parents often places grandparents, as the children's primary caregivers, at the center of their ...

THERE is an idea popular with non-poets that every man is a poet in his youth, and in his youth only. After that, his poetic arteries harden and he gives up verses and devotes himself to prose. If the ...