In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

Poetry is a space to experiment with language — communications through this medium enables deeper emotional expression. This ...

and a listener shares a poem about friendship during National Poetry Month. Donate Now Public media is under threat. Your help is needed now to keep this important service alive as NCPR's public ...

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.

Two schools in Northamptonshire have been named runners-up in the prestigious Poetry Together National Competition, a project founded by Gyles Brandreth and supported by Her Majesty The Queen.

For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...

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?

“He just wants to go for a beer with the guys, but his only friends are just Meghan’s friends’ husbands." But despite missing his friends and family, Harry says he won’t return to the UK ...

Though long separated, former couple Ely Buendia and Diane Ventura have maintained their friendship over the years and have collaborated on several music projects. They have a son named Eon Drake.

Perhaps such happy poetry shouldn’t be so unusual, but Gay’s odes to such everyday pleasures as sleeping in his clothes or drinking water from his hands bring a rare satisfaction.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney lamented Canada’s lost friendship with the United States as he visited the town that sheltered thousands of stranded American airline passengers ...