Kate Hackett, a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was walking with a friend on campus when they saw a microphone next to a sign: “Tell us something good that happened to you ...

Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Come See Me in the Good Light,” a documentary about Boulder County poet Andrea Gibson grappling with an incurable cancer diagnosis, wins over Sundance audiences’ hearts.

On December 18 last year, Slam Poetry was launched in Gulu City. It was the first slam poetry for secondary school children ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Her superpowers as a philosopher sprung out of the frustration at getting her thoughts and herself across to people who ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...