World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

Do you ever think about how poetry’s is relevant to politics? Dujie Tahat does. Tahat is Seattle’s new Civic Poet for the 2025 to 2026 term. Tahat spoke to the Northwest Asian Weekly about how they ...

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

Silvia Foster-Frau is a national investigative reporter for The Washington Post who covers immigration. Foster-Frau joined The Post as a multiculturalism reporter in February 2021, writing about ...

But people really do make pronouncements like that about literature. Someone I met a few years ago, a big poetry person, just could not believe that an adult would spend years of his life thinking ...

In 1994, Australian poet Dorothy Porter published a book unlike any other: Monkey's Mask, a lesbian crime novel written in verse. The genre-bending book was a bestseller and was later adapted for ...

Sylvia Seventy, who kept her life private but was known widely as an artist, died March 1 of cancer at age 77. The artist, who was born May 15, 1947, in Alhambra, California, created handmade ...

In its planning application to Dorset Council, the society said: "Sylvia Townsend Warner was a prolific writer and poet whose career spanned six decades, producing some of the most varied ...

A Manx poet, actor, and playwright has received the Isle of Man's top cultural award. Annie Kissack has been awarded the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan, or Manannan's Choice of the Year, by Culture Vannin.

The Authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a country mouse, Mark Van Doren a town mouse. Their view of country people is dissimilar: Poet Warner’s satirical, Poet Van Doren’s nostalgic.

“The most startling thing to me is that, after all this time, I’m still here,” says the 93-year-old poet. Fainlight has lived in her flat on the second floor of a mansion block in west ...