Stigmata draws on inspiration from a wide archive of practices and texts including body horror, postculturalism, queer theory and apophatic theology. The collection of poems combines the "sacred" of ...

Among the theme-based Durga Pujas creating ripples among pandal hoppers and art lovers in Kolkata this year is Behala Friends Durga Puja, which highlighted the ongoing humanitarian crisis at Gaza as ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

Matthew McConaughey‘s new book, “Poems & Prayers,” was born from the growing disillusionment he felt watching the news over the past few years. The Oscar-winning actor took his book tour to “Fox & ...

In our fraught modern world, poets are rarely celebrities. But celebrities sometimes get their poems published. Certain people (disgruntled scribblers) may scoff at this. What do Megan Fox, James ...

A project examining how Essex school girls feel about their accents has shared their spoken word poetry with train passengers on the morning commute. Dr Tara McAllister-Viel at the University of Essex ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...

After 38 years, 38 anthologies and two greatest hits collections, “The Best American Poetry” series is concluding with its 2025 edition. David Lehman, who conceived the series in 1987, launched it in ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

Prize-winning poet and journalist Max Wallis has founded The Aftershock Review, a new poetry magazine centring “survival, rage and emotional urgency”. Wallis conceived of the magazine in 2024 when bed ...

In a quiet moment on an otherwise ordinary afternoon, Modise Sekgothe found out he had been selected as only the second poet to win the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Poetry in its 40-year ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...