For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

The latest from Columbia poet Gabriel Fried explores thin places between expressions of gender, between faith and doubt.

Louisvillians who need a reprieve from doomscrolling should pop up at the new spoken word poetry event Operation: Doomsday.

But clues can be found in the figure of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet who, in the early 20th ... the manifesto posited that a new generation of young men — exclusively men, of ...

When it comes to great lyricists, there is a slew. You can talk about Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, ...

The young disabled poet Davoren Hanna, who was born 50 years ago on March 12th, touched many people during his short life. Fellow poet Brendan Kennelly, who did much to promote Hanna’s poetry ...

Young Ghanaian poet Nakeeyat wins an award at the Shimei Star Influential Awards. Photo credit: @nakeeyat. Source: Instagram Nakeeyat wore a green short-sleeved corseted African print dress and paired ...

What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

The Young Poets Network are inviting poets aged 5-25 worldwide to write poems of any length and on any theme, in couplets. A couplet is two lines of poetry arranged as a pair – they’re usually linked ...

We have only a handful of female poets in Sanskrit – it has always been an elite language. However, the poems we do have make up in quality what is missing in quantity.

YOUNG writers across Worcestershire are being encouraged to enter the Young Poet Laureate competition. The contest, open to students in school years six to 13, invites budding poets to explore ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.