You could barely escape poetry back in the day. Newspapers commissioned bits of doggerel to print between columns. The N.A.A.C.P.’s doughty house organ and beacon to Black America, “The Crisis ...

The show has already divided opinion in China — but Yu is used to that. Originally from a small village in the central Hubei province, she has been defying expectations ever since she published the ...

Though many networks and policies have been enacted, the industry could do more to celebrate Disability Pride Month, argues ...

'American Idol,' but for poetry For 20 years, teens from around the country have come to Washington, D.C. to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud finals.

The best way to describe Limón’s poetry, perhaps, is saturated: Emotions run through it undiluted and her language is simple, yet full to bursting. Bright Dead Things is laced with these qualities.

Four teens on why they like poetry The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week.

But her poetry, she says, is her private voice – and this time, Maria Shiver's cause is herself. "Life hasn't turned out exactly the way I thought," she said. "But I sit here today in love with ...

The B.C. author's echolalia echolalia is a poetry collection exploring complex and personal experiences of being queer, disabled and seen as "the other." ...

Poem On Pastoral Poetry is a poem written by Robert Burns in 1791 and read here by Hannah Gordon.

I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them Published: March 10, 2025 8:00am EDT Rory Waterman , Nottingham Trent University ...

‘Design and Disability’, a major new exhibition at the V&A South Kensington in London, spotlights the contributions of disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people to the world of design. ‘Disabled people ...

When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect — or to reconnect — people to the world around them and to their ...