World Poetry Day 2024: World Poetry Day is celebrated every year on March 21. The day honours the profound impact that poetry has had on our lives, cultures, and societies throughout the ages. Poetry, ...

It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary giants, such as Homer, Virgil or Dante. The reason for ...

April is National Poetry Month, so to honor the words and songs of famous poets, the Wednesday List is all about poetry. Scattered across the Smithsonian museums, here are a few of the most ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” —Rita Dove. Every year on March 21, people around the world commemorate World Poetry Day, one of the most cherished forms of cultural and ...

Jane Hirshfield, the award-winning poet, translator and essayist, has lofty ideas about poetry’s role in human lives, which she sets out in her new book about poetry, “Ten Windows: How Great Poems ...