At the dawn of the new millennium, UNESCO inaugurated the annual World Poetry Day. Its aim was to honour humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Since then, ...

When Jeff Bezos defended major layoffs at The Washington Post last week, he reached for poetry. Pressed on why he would not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently I walked with a friend at the Alford Greenway in Tallahassee. If you have never been, you want to go. The walk to the ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

“Don’t allow being a woman or a person of color limit you,” Lena Fields-Arnold said. From the time her poetry was praised by her fifth-grade teacher at Belmont Elementary School in the 1970s, local ...

We'll admit it: poetry isn't always accessible. Poetry collections can be dense and difficult to interpret, and — though usually short in length — they can still contain volumes. However, there's a ...

A local preacher's bouts with anxiety in recent years set him on the search for an outlet that would allow the tortured soul to communicate his thoughts, life lessons and apprehensions without ...

Two new poetry collections tackle themes of trauma, exile, resistance and love amid conflict in Gaza ...

Celebrated Urdu poet Bashir Badr passed away at the age of 91 in Bhopal after a prolonged illness. Known for his timeless ...

Recently I walked with a friend at the Alford Greenway in Tallahassee. If you have never been, you want to go. The walk to the bridge that crosses over the railroad track is less than a quarter of a ...