When our train arrived at Stratford station, it was still early in the morning. About 150 kilometers northwest of London, in ...

On Shakespeare’s birthday, we explore why his villains—brutally honest, self-aware, and unapologetic still resonate more ...

The expression comes from the famous scene in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which the eponymous seafarer shoots and kills an albatross—a sign of good luck or providence ...

Check out these Canadian poetry collections we're excited about in spring 2025! If you're interested in poetry, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. You can submit an ...

Shakespeare: (pain rating: your grandad’s funeral). Putting on Shakespeare, particularly MacBeth, requires courage. If you get it wrong, you’re at the risk of bludgeoning the audience to death with ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

The City University of New York today unveiled “Dear CUNY,” a video featuring a poem written by the 2024-25 National Youth Poet Laureate Stephanie Pacheco, in commemoration of National Poetry Month.

Borough of Manhattan Community College student Stephanie Pacheco, the 2024-25 National Youth Poet Laureate, wrote a poem highlighting her experience at The City University of New York and her ...

Isro confirmed the successful re-entry of the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM-4) into Earth’s atmosphere, impacting the Indian Ocean on April 4, 2025. Launched as part of the SpaDeX ...

Johnny Tillotson, who has died aged 86, was a singer best known for his worldwide hit Poetry in Motion, a UK No 1 and US No 2 in 1960 and 1961; he went on to have a string of hits on both sides of ...

Danielle Hanson in 2016 left a thriving corporate communications job in Atlanta to devote her time to her first love — poetry. That departure kicked off a six-year period of serving as a ...

But should a major decline occur, he continued, "heed these lines" from Rudyard Kipling's classic poem "If," circa 1895. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...