Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

February, and the events of this year so far have not inspired much optimism. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are being slashed, hundreds of people have lost their homes to fires and members ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a valentine poem.

At the New Delhi World Book Fair 2025, six contemporary poets explore how words and visuals merge to reshape poetic expression.

Love always has been a mystery to me, and I doubt I’m alone in that. It seems to be THE critical thing in living, the thing ...

Robson's dad, Brian, wrote 'Little Girl' when Karen was a young child. After thinking the recording was lost, it has been ...

After weeks of speculation about "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei's strategy for dealing with the new Trump administration in Washington, it seems that he has opted for a cocktail of tantalizing pledges ...

Nonetheless, in several poems he spoke out directly against the senseless inhumanity of the killing on both sides. When the first glimmer of the peace process arrived with the IRA ceasefire in ...

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war – and why the peace process is far from over. By Michael Longley Editor’s note: this piece was ...

Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read ... poets across America read protest poetry, organising evenings of resistance. Carol Ann Duffy, then serving ...