March 21st is World Poetry Day, a day to celebrate the beauty and power of words. This special occasion shines a spotlight on ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Workshop - The Thread by Don Paterson from the landmark series exploring the pleasures of writing and reading poems. Presented, ...

Stagecoach South has launched a community initiative to display children's poetry on buses in Basingstoke. The competition was open to primary schools in the area and aimed to celebrate young creative ...

Thilakarajah first started writing poetry in school. He encountered Velupillai’s work in his Tamil literature syllabus and ...

These poetry collections capture the essence of ... About the Author Brian Taylor has dedicated 32 years to inspiring young minds as a public school educator within the Oceanside Unified School ...

The simple, yet powerful image in Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon’s pensive poem Mambazham (1936) of a mother offering a mango to her son, where he had been buried, months after she had reprimanded ...