The North Park resident says she hopes to work with local schools to incorporate more poetry into their curriculums and host ...

Faiz was born near the then British Indian town of Sialkot in 1911. Both were outstanding poets in their languages, focusing their poetry on the oppressed and disenfranchised in their communities.

What is it about love and pain that makes us want to write more than when we are bursting with joy? Why are all of my ...

Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish a poet laureate of Massachusetts. Applications for the position are not yet open, but the eventual appointee will be responsible ...

Sarojini Naidu wasn't just India's 'Nightingale'. She was a fierce freedom fighter, a trusted leader, and India's first ...

Mejlak was one such person and, for some decades of the 21st century, she maintained the title of Malta’s first female poet. Mejlak was born on January 5, 1905. She was the second child among ...

In honor of the day, you’ll find a collection of stirring Inauguration Day quotes spoken by U.S. presidents or poets during inaugurations dating back to George Washington’s 1789 swearing-in ...

Jointly organized by Navya Sahiti Samiti, Yuvabharathi, and IIMC College, the event paid homage to legendary Telugu women poets through the stage presentation of 'Sarada Vijayam'. Navya Sahiti ...

If the American experience had a cinematic poet, it was him. The news that Lynch had left us was shocking only because it seemed that he’d be here with us forever.

He was the poet laureate this city never knew it had. We just never realized it because his iconic drawl so seamlessly blended into the background here: whether it was hearing him give the weather ...

a Scottish poet whose 1999 volume “The World’s Wife” presented a series of dramatic monologues by ignored or silenced women from myth and history: Mrs. Midas, Pontius Pilate’s wife ...