There was never a time he decided to do poetry, he never chose to do poetry. He decided to be himself and poetry just defined itself in him. Twenty-year-old poet Christopher Vembo, aka Kriss New-tone, ...

“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...

Although Muhammad Ali spent a long time training to become a boxing legend, he is also known for having created what is probably the shortest poem of all time. Harvard’s graduating class in 1975 was ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

In 1993, a poetry anthology appeared that seemed to speak directly to the spirit of the times and, in so doing, appeal to an audience far larger than what poetry in English could generally boast. More ...

LIMA — A community can be known for many things, whether it is industry or geography or demographics. For proponents of the arts, helping a community create its own voice artistically can create a ...

As the world celebrates World Poetry Day (WPD) today, CHINAKA OKORO writes that the country should take advantage of the celebration to encourage Nigerians to embrace poetry as a tool to fight ...