Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a "lawnmower poetry microgenre," using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

Academics argue that tribal use of blood quantum as a measure of who qualifies as Indigenous will lead to membership declines ...

Young people are learning life skills like public speaking and memorization through a national poetry competition. We speak ...

The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has honoured the bold voices in its 2024 National Essay Writing Competition. The 2025 edition is now open for entries.

I first read it as a part of my junior year English class in high school. After recently buying a personal copy, I have been re-reading with renewed vigor and murky memories of the ending. Stream of ...

The idea for “Exploding the Word” came from a single moment I witnessed between two of my students improvising a scene before ...

Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha has just been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his essays about the ...

Other Pulitzer Prize winners in the arts included Percival Everett in the Fiction category for his novel 'James', Branden ...

A conversation with the anonymous creator of the popular account about their new collection of poems.