World Poetry Day 2024: World Poetry Day is celebrated every year on March 21. The day honours the profound impact that poetry has had on our lives, cultures, and societies throughout the ages. Poetry, ...

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” —Rita Dove. Every year on March 21, people around the world commemorate World Poetry Day, one of the most cherished forms of cultural and ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – National Poetry Day, observed each year in October, serves as a reminder of poetry’s enduring power to stir emotions, spark imagination, and capture human experience in just a ...

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an engaging ...

And learned a few things they’d not known, see? Full disclosure: We wrote that one. And it’s true that the word poetry doesn’t necessarily bring fun and laughter to mind. The exception to the rule?

From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time ...

Kim Roberts wants to talk back to the canon. That’s the point of putting together an anthology of historical poems, she says. As a local literary historian and a poet herself, she’s been thinking ...

Hyakunin isshu is the most famous of the many anthologies of classic poetry Japan has produced over the centuries. The collection, whose title loosely translates as “one poem each from 100 poets,” ...