I was scared my parents wouldn’t let me study or write poems. That fear is what led me to adopt the pen name Jyoti Jungle. I ...

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read ...

Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

These collections by Juliana Spahr, Mai Der Vang, Hasib Hourani and Martín Espada invite us to rethink the relentless accumulation of history.

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written during successive waves of bubonic plague focused directly on the ...

Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...

Much of Mexico is filled with bougainvillea, which bloom for most of the year, and San Miguel is no exception. It is stunning ...

Can you write a poem inspired by the words Pontefract is a Wonderful Place? David Buck, Listener and Shaper for the Methodist Church in Pontefract is inviting the town to write poems inspired by the ...

Many people, even avid readers, find themselves intimidated by reading or trying to write poetry. But, perhaps through a line ...

Do you ever think about how poetry’s is relevant to politics? Dujie Tahat does. Tahat is Seattle’s new Civic Poet for the ...

Key order comes at a time when standup comedian Kunal Kamra is facing heat for taking a dig at Eknath Shinde without naming ...