shielded in valleys. Love, may we make this day. Love, give me lips and noses, skin parting tangy skin.

The group poetry sessions at the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota tap into a reverence for elders and storytelling.

It was no ordinary evening. This was Made in Kelele, a spectacular celebration marking 10 years of Kelele Poetry at Makerere University.

A TikTok video of a little boy reciting an isiZulu speech went viral. South Africans were touched by the little boy as he was ...

In This Could Be a Love Poem for You, her fourth collection of verse, Ranu Uniyal offers a powerful poetic account of her wrestling with the profound sense of loss that pervades her everyday existence ...

“[c]learly Rosy had to go or be put in her place.... The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person’s lab.” —James D. Watson, The Double Helix (1968) I am the ...

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 ...

The king of South Africa's large Zulu community has challenged a professor and cultural expert to a stick fight, saying he had been insulted, along with the entire Zulu nation. King Misuzulu ...

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 ...

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.