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Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.
Launched in 2021 by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), the Kanz Al Jeel Award has achieved notable success, ...
Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...
Columnist Justice B. Hill celebrates Cleveland teens who are showcasing their creativity and resilience by turning everyday words into art at a local poetry slam.
The fourth Arab Poetry Forum recently took place in Bamako, Mali, under the support of His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin ...
A host BBC Radio 4's best known programmes and presenters are coming to Bradford for the UK's biggest festival of poetry, ...
Zach Scott’s chapbook of poems "Boys as Tethered Dogs," published by Tallahassee's Apalachee Press, presents a contemporary ...
These poems take their sincerity as a given: they are rapturous, melancholic, dismayed or angry just as they declare ...
The AVBOB Poetry Competition has officially opened for its ninth year, inviting South Africans to submit poems.
Rajula Srivastava's journey to winning the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for blending harmonic analysis and number ...
Who still reads poetry? In a digital age and in a time when the empirical has for the most part replaced the spiritual, ...
Under the patronage of His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, the ...