Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

Make tonight special for you and your partner. Before drifting off to sleep, read these 4 love poems to your partner and ...

All through the summer of 1788, the great poet-philosopher-playwright Friedrich Schiller used to stride around this bend, ...

Poems don’t give you news, they give you inspiration. Poems don’t give you knowledge, they heighten your sensitivity. Poems don’t give you information, they increase your empathy.

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

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Joy Harjo, the first Native American Poet Laureate in the U.S., is releasing two illustrative books this month, centered ...

Billy Corgan wrote one of his only love songs, "Stand Inside Your Love", as The Smashing Pumpkins neared its first breakup.

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

If you sit with it, you can see that the poem has the aspect of a Greek drama. It gets down to a conflict, like the one in Antigone, between love and duty, or between obligations to the family versus ...