The Nigerian Children Cultural Heritage (NCCH) has concluded plans to celebrate this Children’s Day and the 58th anniversary of Lagos State in memorably grand style. The release by the NCCH shows that ...

Ernest Hemingway, Mary Poppins, the Nutty Professor, and Mr. Hyde—that reflect how alcohol changes personalities ...

Kelsi Vanada’s Optional Saint (Bench Editions) is a delicate collage of poetic styles that maintain a signature sparseness of ...

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

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

Songwriting and poetry go hand in hand, and these three famous songwriters managed to make their song lyrics sound like poems ...

Ancient Chinese poems provided unexpected data on the Yangtze finless porpoise's habitat decline, showing a 65% range ...

The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week. NPR asked some of this year's competitors about how to master a poem.

To ensure accuracy, the researchers cross-referenced each poem with historical records, examining the poet’s life, geographical movements, and writing style. This allowed them to construct a ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

"One of the biggest challenges in this research was just the sheer number of Chinese poems out there, and the fact that every poet had such a different style," says Mei. "We had to figure out how ...