Judge James Hillary Mulligan wrote a poem for his beloved state and read it first in Lexington “The moonlight falls the softest – In Kentucky;The summer’s days come oft’est - In Kentucky; ...

The original desi rapper, once the poster boy of ’90s Indi-pop, has now reinvented himself on Twitter (or X, if we must) as a ...

The dub poet, who appeared in hit BBC show Peaky Blinders, died at the age of 65 in December 2023, shortly after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Limericks are one of the most famous forms of poetry in the Western world. Short and easily memorized, the five-line rhymes are often absurd and frequently obscene, as evidenced by the many ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of need. Either way, I’d love to know why it matters to you.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?