World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

Hers was largely a world of beauty, caresses, whispers and desires; songs sung in honor of the goddess Aphrodite and tales of mythical love. In “Fragment 16,” arguably Sappho’s most sublime poem, ...

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...

Profile of the statue of Aphrodite of Milos (Venus de Milo) at the Louvre Museum. Credit: Bradley Weber / Flickr CC BY 2.0 She embodies the universal concepts of beauty, sexual love, and fertility, ...

Everyone feels like they have some sense of Frost. Everyone knows a poem or two. That kind of overexposure lends an aspect of at least apparent obviousness. But there’s another aspect, too, which is ...

In 1994, Australian poet Dorothy Porter published a book unlike any other: Monkey's Mask, a lesbian crime novel written in verse. The genre-bending book was a bestseller and was later adapted for ...

My boys are getting bored, and that’s not good for their appetite or their temper.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “96 Vandam,” by Gerald Stern, and his own poem “Man on ...

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Calling all budding poets. Youth six to 14 years old can take part in the Children’s Spring Poetry Contest until May 5. Learn more and enter a poem. An advocate for poetry, language and the arts, ...