Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...

For Peter Quinn One hundred thirty now, the lingering years gone since my Moran fled the pathetic coast of Mayo, longing ...

Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a ...

The show, titled “Poetry of Time,” was created to observe Dongdaemun Design ... which is comprised of amorphous panels that ...

I wrote about Rupi Kaur — how her poetry is bad and I despise her success, et cetera. I thought that was all I had to say. But then, I was alerted to a poet. Her digital scent wrapped around my ...

I often hear from peers and students that poetry is intimidating, but poetry is actually one of the purest forms of expression. Every single word, even syllable, matters in a poem, capturing the ...

SOMERVILLE — Walter Sass had a leak. Or so said the readings from his water meter. In February of last year, he said, the meter showed the pipes in his Somerville home were steadily losing large ...

Even those of us who enjoy Ralph Waldo Emerson will apologize for his poetry. His essays—most of ... strung across rhymes so joyless and meter so clumsy that they seem like punishments: They ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

That was when Anne submitted a meter reading of 70245 to the company only for it to be mistakenly entered in the system as 72450. “This amounts to more than ten times my average reading,” Anne ...