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 ...

These collections by Juliana Spahr, Mai Der Vang, Hasib Hourani and Martín Espada invite us to rethink the relentless accumulation of history.

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

After working as a visual artist for many years, Barbara Segal tried her hand at writing poetry. Now, years later, Segal self ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...

The poem reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

They felt like words waiting to be organized into a poem or article ... alone is also a recognition of the basic human need for solitude — something wisdom teachers identify as important ...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 — In a world where scrolling through social media has become the norm, more and more people in the Greater Klang Valley are turning to an unexpected escape: silent reading in ...