The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...

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Every year since 2014, I’ve set aside a couple of months to sit down with what amounts to a long shelf of poetry published in the past 12 months. My goal is to review 31 single-author volumes, one for ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a ...

One of the most distinctive, identifiable and representative poems in Guyanese literature is “Ol Higue” by Wordsworth McAndrew. It stands out in several ways as a Guyanese poem. National literature is ...

Illustration by Adriana Georgopulos. (Saul Willams photo by Walter McBride / Getty Images / Ntozake Shange photo by Daniel Zuchnik / WireImage) the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are ...

A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism Down on the canal on Christmas Day Down on the canal on Christmas Day a man walks towards ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...