In 1999, UNESCO named March 21 World Poetry Day. Since then, it has been celebrated every year and recognized by those who value poetry in their lives or acknowledge its importance in the history of ...

When French writer Marion Fritsch began posting short texts on Instagram in 2023, she did not think her work qualified as poetry. That was, until everybody else told her so. “When I chose my status ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Georgia Heard, who lives on Singer Island in South Florida. Georgia started writing poetry when she was 10 years old, penning poems to family members ...

Mills International Center hosted their annual World Poetry Night at the Redwood Auditorium in the EMU on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. The 38 presenters represented nine different languages, sharing original ...

LONDON, UK. - When the news cycle feels like a relentless tide—wars, political upheaval, rising divisions, and an endl ...

This Tuesday is World Poetry Day, and we are taking note of this day on NPR. May sound like a cliche that you turn on the news and your public radio station is talking about poetry, but in this case, ...

In her latest collection, the Vermont poet laureate muses on life, death and love, and the power of even mundane physical objects to sustain memories.

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. In fifth grade, we were all given a copy of a poem to memorize. While the goal of ...

ADAM KIRSCH is a young critic with something to prove. Soon after he graduated from Harvard, he began writing on poets and poetry for The New Republic and The New York Times Book Review. I read these ...

Canadian author and performer Rupi Kaur’s first illustrated book of poetry, milk and honey, began as a series of Tumblr posts that migrated to Instagram and were then self-published as a book in 2014, ...

Srikanth “Chicu” Reddy wrote his first poem when he was 5 or 6: an acrostic about Abraham Lincoln. “I think I still have it,” says Reddy, a professor in the Department of English Language and ...