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.

Hollywood's homegrown star, known for leading man roles throughout his career, published a hard-to-find collection that now ...

Senior writing, literature, and publishing major Annalisa Hansford describes their healing journey writing poetry ahead of ...

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 ...

Now, two decades later, McSkimming has penned a family memoir celebrating her sister's legacy, Gutsy Girls: Love, Poetry and Sisterhood. Growing up on Sydney's northern beaches, McSkimming always ...

A Manx poet, actor, and playwright has received the Isle of Man's top cultural award. Annie Kissack has been awarded the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan, or Manannan's Choice of the Year, by Culture Vannin.