Hilary Steele is "overjoyed" by the appointment and looks forward to promoting the city's culture.

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

Kolkata has made its name on the map of English poetry writing in India,” says poet, translator and nonfiction essayist ...

New book claims Shakespeare was actually Emilia Bassano, a dark-skinned Jewish woman poet. Author argues the famous ...

The Dorothy Patterson Poetry Series at West Texas A&M University will feature award-winning poet Terrance Hayes in a public poetry reading in February.

For years, Lee Tonouchi has fostered a growing respect and love for Pidgin, a language once reviled as lazy, inferior — or worse.

Writing towards the end of the first world war, the poet, novelist, journalist and suffragist Benson here dreams of a secure peace ...

Poet Curt Curtin was well known in Worcester's poetry circles. His wife and collaborator, Dee O'Connor, talks about two ...

Can poetry emerge from hunger, loss, and absence and still offer hope? This haunting question lay at the heart of the session ...

At the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters (MBIFL) 2026, the session titled “The Intoxication of Words” brought ...

In addition to his books, both of verse and prose, he helped millions of students through “The Bedford Reader” and other ...