With #Poetry amassing more than 93m Instagram posts alone, is the spoken word resonating more than ever?

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” — William Shakespeare, 'Romeo and Juliet' Ask most people for a list of the most illustrious poets of all time, ...

Many years ago I heard some marvelous advice from the co-director of the UCLA Writing Project, Jane Hancock, about choosing the right words. She was speaking of prose, but I think it’s extra-good ...

I’m a nonfiction writer who has dabbled in fiction writing over the years. I hope to do more of both, but now I also feel called to write poetry. I enjoy the idea of packing big ideas into small ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-saying-798018/ "Musicians must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he's to be ultimately at ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi’s Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce will host the Mississippi Young Writers Poetry Festival, a culmination of her statewide K-12 poetry-writing initiative and competition My ...

In some remote corners of East China's Luxi Plain and Southwest China's Hengduan Mountains, there are schools where teachers ...

On a Monday evening in March 1958, the poet Sylvia Plath wrote herself a note for the morning: “Must be up early, to laundry & steal more pink pads of paper tomorrow.” At the time, she was working as ...

In 1952, W. H. Auden wrote, “What fascinates and terrifies us about the Roman Empire is not that it finally went smash,” but that “it managed to last for four centuries without creativity, warmth, or ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — One of New Mexico’s most accomplished and recognized poets is set to retire from her job teaching at ...