Poetry is the art of language used to convey emotions and experiences. From invoking passion to bringing an audience to a whole new world, poetry is a powerful tool of expression. In honor of ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

By McKinley Franklin Johnny Tillotson, the 1960s chart-topping and Grammy-nominated singer of “Poetry in Motion,” died Tuesday. He was 86. “It is with a broken heart that I write to let you ...

Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind Sixties hits “Poetry in Motion” and “It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’,” has died at the age of 86. Tillotson’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the news in a ...

The St. Augustine PoetFest, a three-day poetry festival, will be held April 10-12. The festival will feature workshops, readings, and open mic nights at various locations in St. Augustine.

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

The crown of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, and two throne chairs are part of the Royal Collection in London. These items were acquired after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and symbolize ...

The rise of the #MeToo movement allowed women around the world to express the extent of the gender-based violence that they suffer every day. On TV, on social media or in the streets, celebrities ...

March 21, 2025, the globe will unite to commemorate World Poetry Day, a day devoted to celebrating one of humanity's deepest forms of linguistic and cultural expression. Designated by UNESCO in ...

Publishing poetry on Instagram “goes beyond writing. On social media, there's a communication, a visual, an aesthetic and an audio aspect. Of course you must have a way with words, but you also ...

Jane (Veitzman) Muschenetz, MBA ’06, writes poetry that bridges the gap between science and art. Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying in high school English.