The NEA grant gave voice, honor and power to an audience of poets who nurtured the gift and returned it to society. May it be ...

Typically wearing leisurewear, the Canadian radio show host looks into a camera in the soundproof studio she created in her basement. With a microphone propped in front of her, she records poems — ...

The New Yorker's famously rigorous fact-checking began with an angry letter from a protective Maine mother. The magazine was just two years old in 1927 when it published a profile of the Rockland-born ...

The Pulitzer Center congratulates the 2025 Fighting Words Poetry Contest winners and finalists!This year's Fighting Words ...

The Trump administration's acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director was criticized Tuesday after creating his own revised version of the famous poem on the Statue of Liberty. At ...

Part Three of John's funeral just wrapped on Days of Our Lives, and it ended with two of the people whose lives, perhaps, ...

Twin for the win, welcome to Gemini season. People born under these stars are marked by a ceaseless curiosity. Seeking to learn through language, they are oxygenated by the new and novel and intere… ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous.. The former Beatle penned a racist verse during the band’s Hamburg residency in 1961. In the short poem, he uses the term ...

Of course, it’s not just famous people who have discovered Balka’s work. The poems in I Hope You Remember have a universality that appeals to those who may otherwise avoid poetry.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bradley J. Irish, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) U.S. Secretary of ...

RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem − even though there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers By Bradley J. Irish , Arizona State University April 29, 2025 ...