Too often, when people think of poetry they think, 'Oh great, another love poem.' Or another nature poem, or another poem rife with socio-political commentary. Well, I'm here to tell you there are ...
A young man from Essex has gone viral for his emotive poetry videos which aim to spark human connection and offer an ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 5, during the second day of the University of Georgia Poetry Festival at the Georgia Museum of Art, poets ...
We should share Lincoln’s love for poetry It isn’t just a decorative cultural fixture. It’s a wellspring of revelation. President Obama, an admirer of Abraham Lincoln, would do well to remember one ...
Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a ...
There's a trend catching on with teens in Tucson. This one is making their English teachers happy. Spoken word poetry has a growing following in high schools there. There's a trend catching on with ...
Lyra and Volkan are pupils with different views on writing poetry. Lyra finds poetry comes easily to her, while Volkan finds it difficult to know what to write. With the help of poet Kate Wakeling, ...
Admit it, GeekDads: you find ideas irresistible. And unconventional ideas expressed in high-octane language? Resistance is futile. It's okay, though – this particular behavioral bug is really more of ...
Both Shalim and Azad are PhD scholars, deeply invested in preserving and reviving the sociocultural and politically fragile status of their community of Bengal-origin Assamese Muslims—a people ...
One tribute to the late John Lewis began by noting his love of W. E. Henley’s “Invictus”; it seems to have been Nelson Mandela’s favorite too, as affirmed in Morgan Freeman’s reading of the poem.