Black Poetry Day does more than fill a spot on the calendar; it serves as a reminder that poetry has launched movements, created community, challenged power, and given poets a lane to voice their ...

In his revered 1917 poem “The Wild Swans at Coole,” Irish writer William Butler Yeats describes the fabled birds as brilliant ...

Farid ud-Din Attar revolutionized Persian poetry not with complex philosophy, but through powerful allegories.

Every year World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated when birds start flying south during the fall and their return home in the ...

A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, ...

“The festival of eariwigs dispersed as I dragged / the blue tarp off the logs left to season now / for going on a couple of years it must be.” C’mon, I’m a dog. We sense these things. It’s a tumor. I ...

Birds are vulnerable to window collisions and predation by domestic cats,” said Natalie Schuman, a volunteer with the Bird ...

Sir Geoffrey Boycott gave a touching eulogy at the funeral of Dickie Bird, praising his fellow Yorkshireman as “the best umpire in the world”. Bird died last month at the age of 92 and his life was ...

Cricketing stars from Yorkshire and beyond were among the mourners who gathered to say farewell to legendary umpire Dickie ...

There are times on Brandi Carlile’s new album, Returning to Myself, where she is comfortably easing into the material, and ...

With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to ...