The last time I smiled out loud at a poem was while hearing Ian McMillan on Radio 4 yesterday morning, reminding English football fans to cherish nostalgia and low expectations. Good stuff it was, and ...

Jonson’s poetic response to bad reviews of his plays by ‘wolf’ and ‘ass’ praises poetry and urges a return to deeper sources of inspiration An Ode to Himself Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ...

In New York City, today has officially been named "Poem In Your Pocket (PIYP) Day." This is the seventh annual PIYP Day in celebration of National Poetry Month in April. New York City urges everyone ...

Driving around Miami, especially each April, we all enjoy the inspiring poems that pop up on signs and billboards. This year, poetry project hosts O, Miami and WLRN held a [Your Poem Here] campaign.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of my darkest memories of studying English literature at school is being made to write a list of bullet ...

WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) - When U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon was asked to write a poem for inscription on a NASA spacecraft headed to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, she felt a rush of excitement at ...

Musicians Amira Gill (25) from Delhi and Seattle-based Vasundhara Gupta (27) are voicing the verses that build a haunting narrative of Partition. Their composition, the eponymous rendition of ...

You don’t have to be Shakespeare for your poem to be read by millions. All you need is a downtown Miami billboard. O, Miami, the nonprofit that organizes poetry programs, launched a new [Your Poem ...