Kent State’s Undergraduate Student Government welcomed students to read their own poetry at the Rhyme and Reason Poetry Slam ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not ...

There was once a time when open mics meant standup comedy. But with the interest in poetry has come a growing popularity of ...

While it lacks the line breaks associated with poetry, the prose poem maintains a poetic quality, often utilizing techniques common to poetry, such as fragmentation, compression, repetition, and rhyme ...

Nearly 300 people entered the Herald purple prize for poetry, sending odes of love or hate about the invasive species that ...

Singapore launches ‘Poems on the MRT,’ which is what a country like ours, still grappling with identity, nationhood, and ...

Gus, drives a bus, one of us” is the memory trick Pru learns to remember his name through, and eventually he becomes so much more than that phrase. Gordon Clapp’s performance is genuine and tender, ...

“During the pandemic, a high school poetry club of Indigenous students invited me to give a reading. I shared poems I’d written about murdered and missing Indigenous relatives, poems about ancestral ...

Meagan Mahoney has always been a writer. After she published her debut, Meranda and the Legend of the Lake in 2023, she was reacquainted with where it all began. “My mom brought over some writing from ...

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...

Anna McClellan unwinds anxiety from the inside out. The Omaha-raised songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has been crafting ...