Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison writes about the one thing he makes sure to bring along, even when he's in pajamas.

Veteran actor Rekha says classic track "Kaisi Paheli" from the 2005 film "Parineeta" emerged as a "metaphor for life" and was ...

The nimbleness of nature, the poetry of emotions, the reach of the mind, the hope for evolution, and above all, a pursuit for ...

Greek doctor and philosopher Hippocrates once said (loosely translated), "life is short, and art is long." History is ...

I am getting to be a wambling old codger.’ He is war-worn: ‘I have taken, when in London, to sleeping in my teeth.’ As a fire ...

Writer Nancy Bo Flood encourages budding writers as well as old hands to follow John Lennon's advice and "Imagine" what could be.

Schuyler once told a friend that “life had been after him with a sledgehammer.” But the poet’s work was sharp and humane, a ...

Marginality, mass death—these are just a few of the reasons why the oeuvre of Essex Hemphill, who died of the virus in 1995, has only been available, until now, in snatches. Hemphill does remain quite ...

Jamaica Poetry Festival, this year, celebrates its 15th anniversary on Sunday, August 10, 2025. It returns to University of Technology, Jamaica’s Amphitheatre featuring Professor Mervyn Morris ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Zach Scott’s chapbook of poems "Boys as Tethered Dogs," published by Tallahassee's Apalachee Press, presents a contemporary southern landscape.

For example, by giving poetic expression to a distressful emotion, poetry allows us to hold it at a distance. The business of the poet is to make poetry out of the raw material of the unpoetical. As ...