While Jazz ‘n Stanzas happens during Black History Month, it is an open space which invites these non-Black students to share ...

There are perhaps no more cited words of poetry, at least poetry of a genuinely high order, than the opening stanza of W. B. Yeats’s haunting 1919 poem “The Second Coming.” ...

Aanya Sonkusare, Henley eighth grader who won the grand prize in UVA’s recent writing contest about democracy in our lives.

In 2010 the Yorkshire-born Poet Laureate Simon Armitage collaborated with Ilkley Literature Festival to create a series of ...

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

Poems can be ordered by breaking them into groups of lines called stanzas. Stanzas in a poem separate ideas, shape the poem and guide the reader through the poem. The main forms of poetry are open ...

We are not actually here, and it is not 2024. It’s 2020, and we are in Paris," observed Nilanjana S. Roy, flipping through A ...

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The New Orleans native should bring rich musicality and innovation to the anthem. The over-under is set at 120.5 seconds.

Lisken Van Pelt Dus sees things we probably never saw in quite the same way, and even as we may recognize these things in our ...

VLR publishes a variety of poetry, prose and visual art in both a print and online issue each semester. Submissions are open ...