Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Academy of American Poets Fellowship The Academy of American Poets Fellowship is a $25,000 prize awarded to one poet each year to recognize distinguished poetic achievement. Established in 1936 and ...

National Poetry Month in April is a special occasion to celebrate the importance of poets and poetry in our culture. This April, U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón has selected twenty new poems by ...

Richard Flanagan is drowning. Trapped in a kayak, wedged underwater, he sips from a pocket of air inside the Franklin’s roar.

The University of Nottingham in England has issued a “trigger warning” to students studying various medieval literature, in ...

A Swindon school pupil who has beaten over 6,000 poets worldwide to become 'Young Poet of the Year' has revealed the inspiration behind her winning poem. 12-year-old Evie Lockwood attends Lydiard Park ...

Performance poet John Cooper Clarke has given fans a preview of his newest work. The so-called bard of Salford chose BBC North West Tonight as the platform for the premiere of his latest poem ...

For a while he made do as a village shopkeeper. He mainly survived on scroungings from his family and fellow writers – John Masefield, Sassoon, T E Lawrence. Prose potboilers, he discovered in the mid ...

You probably know that St. John Paul II was the second-longest-serving pope in modern history with 27 years of pontificate, and he was the first non-Italian pontiff since the Dutch Pope Adrian VI ...

John Travolta, just like Olivia Newton-John, skyrocketed to fame following the release of the film musical Grease in 1978, the year after he danced his way across the big screen in Saturday Night ...

Cruz Bay has seen a surge of development recently, with projects such as The Saint Resort, the Lind Point Complex, and now a new proposal for a dock exclusively for the guests and owners of Gallows ...