#Poem

I was a latecomer to poetry, curling my nose at it in that confounding and rather embarrassing way we have of discounting what we don’t understand, dismissing as useless what we don’t k…

Jesy Nelson has paid tribute to her “tiny superhuman” twins as they celebrate their first birthday. In January, the singer shared that her daughters, Ocean Jade and Story Monroe Nelson-Foster, had been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1.…

A week after her party’s defeat and a day after the newly formed government’s first cabinet meeting, former chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee sent a message to her followers through a poem on Tuesday titled “Brave”.…

Teaching, Darcy’s father had always told her, was useful work. It was meaningful work, work that made sense and also made money, and it would allow her to be independent. Darcy had been a bookworm …

The earliest surviving poem in the English language has been discovered in the National Central Library of Rome

Court quashes FIR, calls poem ‘a satirical and thought-provoking commentary on the issue of human rights violations against women’

From Theguardian RSS Feed: ‘She made Mondays something to look forward to’: readers pay tribute to Carol Rumens, Guardian’s Poem of the week columnist

I asked a model to draft a poem for me last night. It returned something competent — clean meter,...

A personal diary entry by Electra. Today I spent the entire morning negotiating with a human...

The British poet, who also wrote plays, fiction and published poetry in translation, analysed almost 1,000 poems for her much-loved series

2026 keeps bringing back the dead: there are new books of poems from Larry Levis, Fanny Howe, Franz Wright, and of course Lucille Clifton’s At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010 (BOA Editions), …

At some point I stopped stopping to write, life a mark of living not clicking. I wore verbs around my neck swam to think in lengths and stretch the small of my back. Don’t picture me pausing to tak…

From Reddit - r/sat: Is reading 4 articles, 2 small poem too much for daily in prep for R&W?

kia ora! i'm looking for the Yevgeny Yevtushenko poem *Dve Liubimykh* ("Two Beloved Ones"), 1958. i've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole looking for a poem my friend saved a few years ago in english.…

The discovery uncovers new insights into how English spread and evolved over time, the researchers say.

From Independent RSS Feed: Dorset vicar apologises for church magazine poems targeting fat people, benefit claimants, and ‘illegals’

This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great …

This week’s NYT T Magazine has a surprisingly interesting How to Be Cultured section that has personal picks in various categories like film, art, food, and so on.…