The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

The 2025 Jhalak Prize longlist has been announced, and this year the list includes a new award for poetry. Now in its ninth ...

Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.

The Huntington Education Department will celebrate the nation’s largest chapter of the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation ...

One morning in January, I met the musician Lucy Dacus at the Cloisters, the medieval-art museum at the northwestern tip of ...

Shreve Memorial Library is celebrating International Ideas Month with a variety of programs for teenagers. The programs will ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

I adored the way authors were able to evoke emotion and take me on a journey through words on a page. I wanted that gift. I dreamed that I could write something that allows anyone who reads it to get ...

Acclaimed dramatic actress Carrie Coon talks leaning all the way into her lighter side on the latest season of Mike White’s ...