In 1999, UNESCO named March 21 World Poetry Day. Since then, it has been celebrated every year and recognized by those who value poetry in their lives or acknowledge its importance in the history of ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Georgia Heard, who lives on Singer Island in South Florida. Georgia started writing poetry when she was 10 years old, penning poems to family members ...

Mills International Center hosted their annual World Poetry Night at the Redwood Auditorium in the EMU on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. The 38 presenters represented nine different languages, sharing original ...

On World Poetry Day, we look at how people are sometimes compelled to express their feelings and ideas through poems. This Tuesday is World Poetry Day, and we are taking note of this day on NPR. May ...

Canadian author and performer Rupi Kaur’s first illustrated book of poetry, milk and honey, began as a series of Tumblr posts that migrated to Instagram and were then self-published as a book in 2014, ...

Poetry doesn’t often make it into conversations with my friends, let alone my social media feed. However, there is currently a generation of poets rising up and changing that. If you haven’t heard of ...

ADAM KIRSCH is a young critic with something to prove. Soon after he graduated from Harvard, he began writing on poets and poetry for The New Republic and The New York Times Book Review. I read these ...

Though April is the more official “Poetry Month,” today marks World Poetry Day, a 24-hour period incepted by UNESCO in 1999 to recognize and appreciate the form’s ability to transcend language, ...

“The world falls apart.” So, in an echo of W. B. Yeats, says the refrain of the first poem in Jeremiah Webster’s ambitious and much affecting debut poetry collection. Webster teaches English at ...

Srikanth “Chicu” Reddy wrote his first poem when he was 5 or 6: an acrostic about Abraham Lincoln. “I think I still have it,” says Reddy, a professor in the Department of English Language and ...

THERE is a very good reason why the relation of poetry to political revolution should interest our generation. Poetry, to most people, stands for the intensely personal life of the individual spirit.

SIR: Today Monday, March 21, the world over commemorates the 2016 World Poetry Day. The decision to proclaim March 21 as an annual World Poetry Day was adopted during the 30th session of the United ...