Despite more women becoming involved in Burns clubs in recent years, the top table at Burns suppers still tends to be ...

A Moncton writer is working to bring poetry into the lives of incarcerated women in New Brunswick. For the past two years, Kayla Geitzler has offered a six-week poetry course twice a year to ...

Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto ...

A writer who won one of the world's most prestigious poetry competitions has recalled how she "blanked out" when she was told the news. Imogen Wade's poem, based on her real-life experience of ...

While Owen wrote powerful poetry, he was just one of 2,225 men and women from Britain and Ireland who had poems published during World War One. Owen wrote his anti-jingoistic poem as part of his ...

Yuka Kanzaki decided to translate poems composed by a woman with cerebral palsy to send a message that disabilities never slow down people like them. “People tend to think that they cannot do ...

A film inspired by the story of a young Ainu woman who translated into Japanese an epic poem passed down orally among the indigenous people of Hokkaido will soon have a wide domestic release. The ...

A writer has become the first woman to win a prestigious prize twice after scooping the award with a poem inspired by grief and Caribbean rituals. Malika Booker's Libation was named best poem at ...

Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante ...