An award-winning poet, author, translator and educator has died. X.J. Kennedy was 96. He schooled millions of students ...

Spurning the iconoclastic free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited ...

Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.

Minneapolis poet laureate Junauda Petrus recalls meeting Renee Good at an elementary school poetry workshop and shares how her hometown is building off a history of organizing.

Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, SC, honored the life of Black poet Phillis Wheatley on Jan. 30 with a commemorative USPS stamp and a day in her honor.

London's Poems on the Underground celebrates 40 years of bringing verses to commuters - Judith Chernaik, an American writer ...

Its stockmarket’s decline has been extreme: in 2025 London fell out of the top 20 markets for initial public offerings, ...

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis poet, wife and mother, was shot and killed Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, setting off nationwide protests over the ...

Whether your 2026 resolution is to read more or your January involves plenty of hunkering down at home, you’re spoilt for choice with the best book releases from the last year. From romance books and ...

projected bright on the screen, no twin votives by which you held me and said, I want to feel this way all of the time. No all of the time. Just brief suspensions, sharp lung of breath, my blue car ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. poems to read on a break The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you ...

Are song lyrics the same as poems? The members of the Swedish Academy think they are and said as much in 2016 when they awarded the Nobel Prize in literature to Bob Dylan, recognizing him “for having ...