On Saturday, poets of every stripe will take to the streets for Philadelphia Poetry Day. Dozens of poets — and would-be poets — will position themselves on stages, on street corners, and in shopping ...

Six and a half years ago, some folks at Collaborative Arts Insurgency began hosting a weekly, guerrilla-style poetry slam on a Mission District street corner that has taken on a life of its own. What ...

'Day jobs' often pay the bills for people in the arts world. For instance, writers Walt Whitman and Charles Bukowski found poetry in their respective work as a printer and postal worker. Whitman was ...

Everybody wants a piece of the calendar. For the second year in a row, the poets of America have spent April staking a claim to the month as their own. In fact, long before March limped out, lamb-like ...

April is Poetry Month, and there’s an abundance of new poetry books for children. Here’s a closer look: Since the post of Children’s Poet Laureate was created several years ago, three people have held ...

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CHENNAI: At the core of ancient Indian poetry and music, there is lot of mathematics. Mystical as they are, many theorised and recurring number patterns are found in places we wouldn’t expect - in ...

Not since the late 1960s, when the poet Rod McKuen attained his peak of popularity, has an album of spoken poetry sold in large quantities. Now Capitol Records has brought the genre back on the charts ...

Going out of his way to be kind to beginning and second-rate poets was not in Joe Parisi’s job description. He was a front-line editor, a screener of unsolicited verse for Chicago-based Poetry ...

Poetry is a unique form of literature, distinct from prose, in the way it uses words to capture emotions, ideas, and experiences. Unlike straightforward narrative writing, poetry works ...