Here are six snippets that get you started on creating your very own Singapore poetry canon. “I want to taste sharp the petai ...
Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...
In the first issue of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, editor Peter Johnson explained, "Just as black humor straddles the fine line between comedy and tragedy, so the prose poem plants one ...
After: Poetry Destroys Silence” is a documentary that argues that poets are as crucial to processing unthinkable tragedy as historians. The film’s look and sound are lyrical, providing an apt setting ...
Hastings is to host its very first ‘Poetry for Palestine’ open mic night to raise funds for a community in Gaza with ...
An art and poetry exhibition centered on squirrels might sound like mere fluff, but there’s more to “Squirrel Shenanigans: ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
While we're likely all familiar with quite possibly the most famous Halloween poem for kids — yes, I'm talking about the "trick or treat, smell my feet..." one — there are actually quite a few ...
There was a sexual side to Kennedy’s work, too, with Borla saying that he wrote a series of poems about his genitalia. Some ...
For my part, I’ve inherited these heroic, epic ‘herstories,’ and through frontline resistance I’ve carried these stories, told through poetry and legal briefs, to world courts. This poem gives a ...
Hartsburg native Kieron Walquist was one of five poets to win the prestigious 2024 National Poetry Series Competition.