Smith grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and later attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar. They came to poetry through theater, their first poem written for an ...

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 ...

As part of World Poetry Day, celebrated on 21 March, a date that supports linguistic diversity through poetic expression, the BIK Foundation is promoting, for the second year in a row, the ...

Set in the dusty city of Ranchi, Celestina and Lawrence is a film governed by unkept promises and incorrigible desires ...

In a fitting conclusion to National Poetry Month—which celebrates the importance of poets and poetry in our culture—a double poetry launch will be held on April 30 at Burns Library. It highlights the ...

The Barbican Estate in the City of London is arguably Englands finest example of Brutalist architecture This film explores the history of the estate from the ...

Poetry is the distillation of thought expressed in a form designed to cut through the clutter of ordinary expressions and deliver a thought, a message, or an emotion that resonates with truth. And ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

It is in this context that the AVBOB Poetry Project pays tribute to the work of Sarah Lubala, a Congolese-born SA poet whose debut collection, A History of Disappearance (Botsotso, 2022), won the ...

Abuela’s Kitchen is a multimedia art exhibition curated by social justice activist Kelly Vilar of the Staten Island Urban ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

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