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

Randle Chowning, founder of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, writes about songs that tell a story and shares one based on a ...

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

It was a wonder to see the sage, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka man the stage at the 6th ProvidusBank World Poetry Day Café, held on March 21 at Terra Kulture Arena in Lagos. The ...

Becoming an embryo and attaching and forming a fetus is evidence that there is a new individual that is “on the path.” This ...

When French writer Marion Fritsch began posting short texts on Instagram in 2023, she did not think her work qualified as poetry. That was, until everybody else told her so. “When I chose my status ...

The eternal cycle of renewal Nowruz and Persian poetry remind us that, like nature, human life moves in cycles—of endings and beginnings, joy and sorrow, loss and rebirth. As Hafez beautifully puts it ...

The ‘thing called poetry’ worked out – Armitage ... is the single biggest contributor to this vicious cycle – which is where a good probation officer comes in. “It is about making life tolerable for ...