A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

Pianist Michael McNeill has pursued a number of projects since his debut release, Passageways, in 2013, each of which has defined his distinctive niche as a musician informed by both avant-garde and ...

Reflections of a Jewish Psychologist” includes poems that transport readers to psychological and spiritual spaces, like ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

and connect with like-minded individuals through poetry. According to 2021 data from the Arizona Department of Health Services, the suicide rate among Arizona veterans is more than three times higher ...

It was such a place of safety for me," she remembers thinking. It was a "core memory" and the first time the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States − the first Latina appointed to the role − ...

Then there are poems written in the voice of Baartman herself: a mix of Khoekhoe dialect words and euphonic, often musical, phrasing. This wide-ranging method has, almost necessarily, mixed results.

This year, Dallas named Mag Gabbert as the city’s second poet laureate. Gabbert will serve two years in the position and follows Dallas’ inaugural poet laureate, Joaquín Zihuatanejo.

The author and poet Michael Rosen introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The space on the page The 'space' is a ‘friend’ to whom Michael Rosen can tell anything.

If I knew where poems came from, I would go there." These are the words of Belfast-born poet Michael Longley as he shares insights on the friendships and places that have inspired his work.

When author Michael Rosen lost his son, he found inspiration to write again in a poem by Raymond Carver. For more on reading and mental health, head to BBC Culture’s Textual Healing series.