Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for ...

The result was Poems on the Underground, a project that turns 40 this year and has been copied in cities around the world.

Free teacher classroom resources suitable for use in English lessons with primary school children at Key Stage 1 and 2 in ...

The Bonfire Party by Sean O’Brien; Plastic by Matthew Rice; Retablo for a Door by Michelle Penn; Jonah and Me by John F Deane; Intimate Architecture by Tess Jolly The Bonfire Party by Sean O’Brien ...

Are song lyrics the same as poems? The members of the Swedish Academy think they are and said as much in 2016 when they awarded the Nobel Prize in literature to Bob Dylan, recognizing him “for having ...

For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand a change in our habits. For many, the season provokes an unmistakable turn ...

civilization is half a blink of an eye. I’m the descendant of someone who lived a second ago. We all are. When the eye finally closes No one will remember our buildings or borders We’ve been promised ...

Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

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Taylor Swift has written a new poem that will be included on her latest exclusive vinyl release for her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl. Swift announced The Life of a Showgirl: The Crowd is ...

Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado's renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago's "It's OK to Ask ...

I remember the river, flowing so peacefully and slowly you could almost miss its motion I remember the river, mirroring the vastness of the starry sky stretched far beyond the nestled valley I ...