Here are ten classic poems by Sarojini Naidu, the celebrated Indian poet and freedom fighter known as the “Nightingale of ...

While the Taliban claims that it is acting on Afghan culture, by banning women’s access to poetry it is acting completely ...

From California's Joan Didion to Maine's Stephen King, here are the most famous authors from every state.

His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. Published in the print edition of the September 23, 1933, issue, with the headline “Lines To A World-Famous Poet ...

Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi’s spiritual poems and perpetual wisdom have transcended time and cultures. The didactic epic ...

Two lifelong educators and authors have joined forces to promote and encourage literacy in the community through a poetry ...

Cumbria has a long poetic heritage with many creatives using the landscape of the Lake District to inspire their work. Perhaps the most famous is William Wordsworth, who wrote many poems about the ...

Poetry in the 805 survived the pandemic and is alive and well in cafes and schools and libraries all around Ventura County, say local poets young and old, who speak ...

Never again to be seen as laziness. Stretched all the way out, Death allows you an ease that was long taboo. Parsing your life is of no interest to me.

PW’s editors select an enticing variety of works for adults, from holiday-themed mysteries to sweeping poetry anthologies.

What if I told you one of the most famous and beloved Russian Jews of the 19th century—”the father of Yiddish poetry” no less ...

We wear engagement rings on the fourth finger of the left hand because the Greeks referred to that finger as the "vein of ...