With #Poetry amassing more than 93m Instagram posts alone, is the spoken word resonating more than ever?

At the dawn of the new millennium, UNESCO inaugurated the annual World Poetry Day. Its aim was to honour humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Since then, ...

Recently I walked with a friend at the Alford Greenway in Tallahassee. If you have never been, you want to go. The walk to the bridge that crosses over the railroad track is less than a quarter of a ...

“Don’t allow being a woman or a person of color limit you,” Lena Fields-Arnold said. From the time her poetry was praised by her fifth-grade teacher at Belmont Elementary School in the 1970s, local ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

A local preacher's bouts with anxiety in recent years set him on the search for an outlet that would allow the tortured soul to communicate his thoughts, life lessons and apprehensions without ...

When Jeff Bezos defended major layoffs at The Washington Post last week, he reached for poetry. Pressed on why he would not simply subsidise the paper, he argued payment was a “signal” of relevance: ...

Celebrate World Poetry Day by exploring eight inspiring Indian women poets who shaped literature with powerful voices. From Sarojini Naidu to Meena Kandasamy, their works reflect identity, emotion, ...