The inaugural Bengaluru Poetry Festival that is being held this weekend was headlined by many renowned poets. One young poet, belonging to a family associated with politics, drew considerable interest ...

Poet and activist Amanda Gorman recited an original poem on the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, in a follow-up to the historic recitation of her original “The Hill We ...

Five young people from eastern Northampton and Monroe counties were honored Saturday at the Easton Area Public Library, where they recited poems selected in a competition. The competition was ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc. A week ago, I had a column titled “Poems by ...

A mental health patient has had his book of poems published... by a police officer. Oliver Moran first crossed paths with PC Paul Davies last year after going missing from his care home in Moston. The ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...

On Jan. 20, 1961, Robert Frost became America's first inaugural poet, lending literary polish to the swearing-in of John F. Kennedy with "The Gift Outright," a beautiful poem of barbed patriotism.

Tybre Faw met the late congressman at a Selma march in 2018. Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta echoed with applause for a young boy from Tennessee who admired Rep. John Lewis and was tapped by the ...

These are excerpts from three of the poems recited Thursday at the National Poetry Slam Festival in Middletown. “I must have been 12 or 13 when I bought my first cassette. Steppenwolf. “Born To Be ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.