A cedar tree climbed by The Beatles, an oak that may have inspired Virginia Woolf, and a lime representing peace in Northern ...

Ray McNiece, Cleveland Heights poet laureate, is helping lead the "Poem for Cleveland" workshops around Cleveland and the city's surrounding areas.

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Tradition and history inspire interactive UTSA 50th anniversary poem (June 6, 2019) -- Carmen Tafolla, professor emerita in the UTSA Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies and the 2015-2016 Texas ...

Connecticut writer created Poem Renovation to help those who love words write daily poems. The site is now being used as a teaching tool in Saratoga County schools.

In the poem “Footnotes for Kanye,” she highlights the mindset of “otherness” toward Blackness that some successful Black men adopt, and she touches on the disconnect that happens to many ...

A line from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Ulysses" will be engraved on a wall in the Olympic Village to inspire 2012 Games athletes.

Christmas stories that originated in a poem and a television program find their ways into stage adaptations that open this week for two Waco theater companies. Playwright Ken Ludwig used Clement ...

"Symphonic Wings" seeks to erase barriers between scientists and the public as it advocates for helping to reverse the insect ...

Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay penned "If We Must Die" in response to white mob attacks on blacks in cities across the country in 1919.

You've heard of the "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?

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