NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...

Rachel was crying. I do remember one thing she said in our many conversations, if only because I wrote it down. Either in ...

I often hear from peers and students that poetry is intimidating, but poetry is actually one of the purest forms of expression. Every single word, even syllable, matters in a poem, capturing the ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

(Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images) My first encounter with poetry was a haiku by my father. He would say to me, “You can write them, too.” After his death, I finally ventured ...

The simplicity of his life informed his work. Ascending to fame at a time when Anglo-American poetry was growing increasingly difficult and obscure, Frost set himself apart. A lyric poet inspired ...

But maybe it was not science fiction but poetry, the art of intimations and intuitions, that enabled some writers to describe what had not yet happened. Then again, what we think of as intuition ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum ...

prosody and scansion, medical humanities, neoformalist criticism, poetic responses to disaster, epigraphs and allusions, and transatlantic literary relations. Connolly received her Ph.D. in modern and ...

Six armed suspects were killed in a shootout with the police in Gcuwa, in the Eastern Cape, on Thursday afternoon. The shootout happened on the N2 near Ndabakazi village. News24 reliably understands ...