It was a wonder to see the sage, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka man the stage at the 6th ProvidusBank World Poetry Day Café, held on March 21 at Terra Kulture Arena in Lagos. The ...

T oday The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),” a new editorial project that brings ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

It’s impossible for me to talk about writing without talking about living, writes Maggie Smith, author of the new book, "Dear ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...

In honour of Mahmoud Darwish’s 84th birthday, we examine how the Palestinian wordsmith continues to inspire creativity in the ...

Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains ... is an altered copy of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116,” a famous ode to unceasing love. Elias Ashmole, a 17th-century ...

Featuring over fifty bookstores from across the United States, alongside essays, poetry and interviews with Kiese Laymon, Pearl Cleage, W.J. Lofton and more, Prose to the People offers an ...

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has ... Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th Century poetry collection at the University of Oxford.

I often hear from peers and students that poetry is intimidating, but poetry is actually one of the purest forms of expression. Every single word, even syllable, matters in a poem, capturing the ...

Paul Hetherington has worked with, edited and been on judging panels with numerous poets. In the last decade ... My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions.