World Poetry Day: 5 Versus from famous poets that one must know The day aims to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, and promote poetry in general.

World Poetry Day 2024: World Poetry Day is a day to cherish and celebrate the art of poetry in all its forms. It reflects our shared humanity, a testament to the enduring power of language to ...

William Shakespeare is one of the most famous writers in history and is known for his plays as well as his poetry. Some of his most famous poems include “Sonnet 18” and “The Rape of Lucrece.” ...

Here’s a fact that would have sounded wildly unlikely a decade ago: the most popular and influential poet writing in English today is a Punjabi Canadian truck driver’s daughter who self ...

Looking for strange, alien and misunderstood things in the world around us can help find the wonder that inspires poetry, Georgia Heard writes.

Who was the dashing poet from Camden, Maine, who made it look easy? Two recent collections of Millay’s letters and diaries reveal a writer fully engaged in literature and the wider world.

After 30 years of trying, she finally got to see the most famous shipwreck in the world. Stockton Rush plans to return to the wreck next summer. Until then, the Titanic will once again be alone.

It’s a bitter paradox that even the most virulently antiwar of the famous soldier poets of World War I felt the lure of battle. “He was not eager to die,” Michael Korda writes of Siegfried ...

President Biden's penchant for Irish poetry is likely to come through during his upcoming visit to the Emerald Isle, where he'll mark the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

One of Maine’s most famous poets was a brilliant and witty charmer … with an edge A complex portrait of Edna St. Vincent Millay emerges from two new collections of her letters and diaries.