The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

I don't love the Statue of Liberty. Can I say that? I don't love the — I like liberty. I like true liberty. I love America. I ...

Certain zodiac signs are known for their romantic dreams but struggle with actual commitment. Pisces idealizes love but often ...

What drives you to explore these topics? I believe poetry should stem from what you truly care about. For me, two themes dominate: gender discrimination and love. While I care about other issues ...

Storyteller and bookseller Katie Mitchell honors over fifty Black bookstores in her new book, exploring their role in shaping ...

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

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