Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a valentine poem.

With February being Black History Month, it’s important to reflect on and appreciate the rich cultural history that exists ...

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At the New Delhi World Book Fair 2025, six contemporary poets explore how words and visuals merge to reshape poetic expression.

Love always has been a mystery to me, and I doubt I’m alone in that. It seems to be THE critical thing in living, the thing ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

PHILADELPHIA – Jared Verse may have had the first, and second, word. Saquon Barkley and the rest of the Philadelphia Eagles had the last laugh, along with the final chuckle. During his stroll ...

BRAINERD — Verse Like Water, the visiting poet program of Central Lakes College, will present Pulitzer Prize-winning poet ...

“A Complete Unknown” portrays Woody Guthrie, dying in his bed of Huntington’s disease, as a bedrock of authenticity as well ...

Laman Ismayilova Read more The Republican Youth Library has hosted a presentation of the books We and Suitcase, consisting of poetry and prose ...

Observant members of the Australian literary world have been amazed by the Times Literary Supplement of September 10, 2010. I ...