Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

It was a truly hectic Sunday, May 25, for the American-born pope, as he visited the two major basilicas: St. John Lateran and ...

A new bilingual collection of poems celebrating Wales' rivers gives Welsh and English "equal weight" to encourage poets to write in their first language. Fifty poets from Wales each write about ...

I mean, they didn’t think that students in English seminars in the 1950s were going to be analyzing the prosody. They were writing naughty poems about Anne Boleyn. There are all kinds of ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

CHELSEA — During a moment of solitude early on in Apollinaire Theatre Company’s production of “Hedda Gabler,” Parker Jennings as Hedda savagely punches the air, then gives voice to her ...

Liam Payne’s Sister Shares Raw Tribute: 'Six Months... Still No Air To Breathe' Six months after Liam Payne’s tragic death, his sister Ruth Gibbins has broken her silence in a deeply emotional ...

Five English football teams are commissioning official poems for their clubs as part of a scheme to encourage youth literacy. Any football fan who’s watched a game in the UK will be well aware ...

The robots may take our jobs, but they’ll never come for our sonnets. Right? A new study in the journal Scientific Reports finds that nonexpert readers can’t reliably distinguish between poems ...