True about Anne Sexton’s grandmother—but to extend Auden’s cantankerous question, “Who cares about thrushes?” (Thomas Hardy did, and now I do.) “Who cares about daffodils?” (Wordsworth did, and ...

There was no one like Nikki Giovanni. The Black poet, writer and educator, who was born in Knoxville and died Dec. 9 at 81, understood intimately that poetry was a spoken form of art as well as a ...

Sheffield Telegraph publishes here exclusive poems from If All This Never Happened, the debut chapbook from Sheffield-based, Welsh-born poet Vicky Morris. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

We hear stories, we tell stories all our lives. But life is always more than what we think it is. .‘This more’ is the mainstay of creative expression. Our stories are as ever present as our breath.

A Baltimore poet is on the way to becoming the country’s most famous substitute teacher. Kondwani Fidel wasn’t even an hour into his first day subbing at Baltimore City College high school when a ...