Gibson, who died this week, valued live performance and emotionally resonant language.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

Poems that every child should know; a selection of the best poems of all times for young people by Burt, Mary Elizabeth, 1850-1918 Publication date 1904 Topics English poetry, American poetry ...

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Journey through time to discover the most famous poets who ever lived! Celebrate these literary masters with us.

Raymond Antrobus and Zoë McWhinney have been shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prizes for Poetry; this is the first year the ...

David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer.

Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

Family historian and Evening News contributor John McInnes has sadly passed away after a short illness, at the age of 82. Here, his daughter Alison McInnes pays tribute and looks back on her father’s ...

Danabelle Gutierrez shares her journey through art, identity, and motherhood ...

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.