By ITZEL LUNA Long before Jessie Reyez was celebrated for her voice, poetry was the Toronto-bred musician’s “first love.” The ...

Sarah Howe’s new collection comes a decade after her TS Eliot Prize win as a young part-Chinese female was met with racism ...

Oluwatosin Akinrinde’s “Deathbed and Other Poems” is a poetic narrative with thematic varieties and a Marxist mentality that ...

Every individual needs poetry in life — not just as written verses, but as the inner rhythm of thought. A poem can offer ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

I am writing to you with a special poem that I have composed to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of the passing of Ernie Harwell, beloved voice of the Detroit Tigers. (Editor's note: Harwell died ...

To celebrate Black History Month, we commissioned a poem by Lemn Sissay OBE to reflect the club’s journey from Maine Road to ...

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...

Plenitude The housing crisis peeps through certain poems (“our young who cannot afford a home: there is no nest” Lustrous ...

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and ...

Serena Thomas, a seven-year-old Kisumu girl has penned an emotional poem in honour of former prime minister Raila Odinga ...

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