Through television, Moyers connected Americans with poets at street level, an especially valuable gift since few of us get to ...

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What does life in Scotland look like in 2025? Beyond the tourist trails and postcard-perfect landscapes, a new chapter of ...

This little poem never fails to make me smile--it leads off Sandra Cisneros's 1994 volume of poems, Loose Woman, and is a lightly irreverent, highly rhetorical declaration, a rococo piece of work ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93.

Young people are learning life skills like public speaking and memorization through a national poetry competition. We speak with this year’s “Poetry Out Loud” winner, ...

The idea of memorising poems may seem old-fashioned, but interest in learning poetry by heart is reviving worldwide, says educator Ow Yeong Wai Kit.

It seems there is poetry that can be found about any subject, especially love. Here are six of the best short love poems to help anyone nourish their heart and soul.

Let Yourself Rage With Poet Laureate Ada Limón Limón has been on a mission to help Americans experience the full range of human emotion.

Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth dubbed “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan,” died of heart failure on June 14, Shichosha, a Tokyo publisher of her works, said Wednesday.