University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this ...

You can usually stir up debate by comparing song lyrics to poetry. As a publication that highlights the exploits of songwriters, we believe that writing a song presents a unique set of challenges and ...

Banter, buskers, and the Barras; single ends and smirry rain; the clockwork orange and that famous traffic cone … Everything you might expect and lots you might not has made it into the Great Big ...

NPR Poet in Residence Kwame Alexander recently challenged listeners to write a poem about napping, or anything related, sleeping, dreaming, relaxing.... One thing we confirmed, hundreds of you spend a ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls. Smith’s collection of poems, “Bluff,” was published by Graywolf Press earlier ...

This week marks 100 years since the dedication of the cornerstone for Our Lady of Victory, the basilica that boasts more angels than heaven itself.