In 1999, UNESCO named March 21 World Poetry Day. Since then, it has been celebrated every year and recognized by those who value poetry in their lives or acknowledge its importance in the history of ...

On World Poetry Day, we look at how people are sometimes compelled to express their feelings and ideas through poems. This Tuesday is World Poetry Day, and we are taking note of this day on NPR. May ...

One of the world’s most popular music streaming services is good for much more than your daily pop or rap fix. Spotify has recordings of dozens of poets reading their own work, and World Poetry Day is ...

THE world poetry day of 2023 was celebrated with fanfare and aplomb almost everywhere literature is regarded, practiced and recognized. The social media brought to notice, the diversity of the ...

On this World Poetry Day, we travel back to the early ‘90s to visit a poet who took the path less traveled. Born in New York City and a creature of academia, Michael Carey picked up the plow for ...

Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, stressed the importance of poetry to students on Thursday. Students from East End Primary, St George’s Preparatory and St David’s Primary schools shared ...

The rise of the #MeToo movement allowed women around the world to express the extent of the gender-based violence that they suffer every day. On TV, on social media or in the streets, celebrities and ...

When French writer Marion Fritsch began posting short texts on Instagram in 2023, she did not think her work qualified as poetry. That was, until everybody else told her so. “When I chose my status ...

This Tuesday is World Poetry Day, and we are taking note of this day on NPR. May sound like a cliche that you turn on the news and your public radio station is talking about poetry, but in this case, ...