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

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul ... at the words and syllables and even individual letters that make it a poem. (If you’re just joining us, this is the third day of our Poetry ...

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

In addition to poetry, the event featured musical performances by local artists who sang songs celebrating peace and harmony.