Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

In Gaza, parents have taken to writing their children’s names on their legs in black marker pen so, if the family is ...

The man behind the immensely popular Poetry Unbound podcast discusses the two books he’s publishing this year, early objections to Patrick Kavanagh, and the vitalness of surprise ...

Discover how a dandelion grows from a delicate fluffy seed into a bright yellow flower, enjoy beautiful poems which lift the ...

Today, 5 February, is World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). The Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and Nal’ibali, South Africa’s reading-for-enjoyment campaign, invite you to help spread a love of ...

On December 18 last year, Slam Poetry was launched in Gulu City. It was the first slam poetry for secondary school children ...

A series of poems by Megan Fox ,describing a physically and verbally abusive relationship, are going viral and raising ...

WEST Kilbride Library is launching a four-week poetry programme for children in P3 to P7 It aims to offer a fun and creative way to explore poetry and writing. The sessions begin on February 6 and ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

On the south side of the river / inside a mossy grove / they say there lives a boy / with pockets full of gold… So begins a ...