When love contracts, it lives in the chest of one person. When it expands, it becomes the world. Jigar Moradabadi understood ...

Pronounced “Old Lang Zyne,” experts say it started as a poem, and has since become a song that is now a staple in New Year’s ...

If you’ve ever written a set of lyrics or a poem, you’ve probably imagined how it might sound as a song. But turning words ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.

The surgeon informed Longfellow that Charley’s wound “was very serious” and that “paralysis might ensue.” Three surgeons gave ...

More than a decade ago, Democratic candidate for governor Jonathan Kiper self-published a book of poetry filled with sexual ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

The Hereward Community Rail Partnership (HCRP) has held what Greater Anglia describes as a "unique cultural event" involving poetry on a train.

Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

The Atlantic magazine introduced many now-classic works by writers including Longfellow, Whitman and Frost.

Here & Now ‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Evan Wang, the first young man to be named the National Youth Poet Laureate by the literary group Urban Word. His love for poetry began in his early teens, ...