Whether you’re recognizing important history or seeking a sprinkle of love and positivity to brighten your month, these ...

Can a few lines of verse, make commuting less worse? The result was Poems on the Underground, a project that turns 40 this ...

A Chartiers Valley Middle School student was recognized for her writing ability. Saadhana Srinivasan, 14, won the Unsung Community Service Award among youth for her poem, “A Dream Come True,” at The ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tribute to the famous Tamil poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar on Thiruvalluvar ...

Ninth grader Tessa Kowarsky (center, holding flowers) won the AHS annual Poetry Out Loud contest on Dec. 4. She’s flanked on the left by runner-up Marissa Leary, a senior, and on the right by Gaby ...

Hacking the planet with florid verse. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Today, I have a new favorite phrase: "Adversarial poetry." ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. Seamus Heaney’s ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of ...

St Alphonsus Primary School pupil, Luqman, has won the Foundation’s inter-school poetry competition, in celebration of Black History Month! The competition encouraged children from 10 of the ...

There is a particular way Matthew McConaughey speaks when he is circling an idea he does not want to let go of. The sentences roll, stop, double back. A word, “belief,” becomes a refrain, a drumbeat.

David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer. By Jeff Gordinier Jeff Gordinier recently won the James Beard Foundation’s M.F.K.