Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, recently joined 10 distinguished poets from Nigeria and Cuba to deliver their works at the sixth Providus Bank Poetry Café, held to mark the 2025 World Poetry ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

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Miller said he is honored to be Austin’s first poet laureate. It’s a two-year role through Austin Public Library with the ...

April 2 (UPI) -- Hollywood is mourning the death of Top Gun and Willow star Val Kilmer at the age of 65. Kilmer's cause of ...

A Democratic US lawmaker shattered a record for the longest speech in Senate history Tuesday, staying on his feet for more ...

In 'Cosmic Connections,' Charles Taylor focuses on how art, and poetry in particular, both expresses and responds to the unique human experience of “being modern.” ...

Katharine Lee Bates spent the summer of 1893 in Colorado Springs and wrote a poem the whole country now ... Their stay atop the famous peak was short-lived, however, as one of Bates’ colleagues ...

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

Do you ever think about how poetry’s is relevant to politics? Dujie Tahat does. Tahat is Seattle’s new Civic Poet for the 2025 to 2026 term. Tahat spoke to the Northwest Asian Weekly about how they ...

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

The actress playing Mook in The White Lotus Season 3 is one of the most famous people in the world. And many people watching the show, it seems, have no idea. That might sound like an exaggeration ...