Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

Black History Month traces back to 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that pivotal year, Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland founded ...

The final two programmes focus on classic poetry and include a selection of well-known poems often taught at Key Stage 2. These poems are read by the actors Maxine Peake and Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

Edited by Malachi Edwin Vethamani, ‘Malaysian Places and Spaces: Poems’ features 80 works by pioneering English-language ...

These writers, desperate to tell their stories, chose poetry because of its immediacy, its conciseness, its emotional impact and its ability to say what cannot easily be said in prose. Almost none of ...

The imperial couple, to whom Meiji Shrine is dedicated, was known as prolific poets. As many as 100,000 poems are attributed to the emperor, while his wife is credited with 30,000. According to ...