Tuesday marks the close of National Poetry Month, a 30-day celebration of all things versified and all people versifying. And in tangentially related news, for more than eight months, a book of ...

NY AG Letitia James Expands Battle to Disqualify Trump-Appointed, Unconfirmed U.S. Attorneys Audio By Carbonatix Last night at the DNC, the literary genius Amanda Gorman read a terrific poem about ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington, Connecticut. This is Marilyn’s second column in the series. Her first ...

For more than 150 years, children have been captivated by the tale of The Owl And The Pussy-Cat and their adventures in a 'beautiful pea-green boat'. But now trans rights campaigners have renamed ...

Noted singer PJ Harvey recently recited a poem written by the late avant-garde rock musician Captain Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet, about her cat, reports Stereogum. Titled “Man Can’t Anticipate Cat,” ...

Ernest Hemingway once said that a cat has absolute emotional honesty: Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. So Hemingway might have appreciated ...

Canonised as one of Urdu’s greatest poets, Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” of Delhi, who died in 1810, also authored a collection of verse in Persian. He composed verse in genres other than the ghazal, in ...

Christopher Smart (1722–1771) was a madman, a genius, a Christian poet, and a mystic of small things. At his worst, he would rage against his father-in-law (with, it must be admitted, some ...