Kimberly Brown, who goes by the artist name Boots, gets messages every day from people who have stumbled across her work.

Sibilance is a hissing sound in language. It occurs when 's', 'sh', or 'z' sounds repeat. This technique adds mood to poetry ...

Words for a better world Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates ...

When Cyprus Mail published “A poem for Cyprus” in honor of Independence Day, it underscored something many on the island ...

A series of Mondays in 2025 saw me carry a box of creative writing prompts, balanced like a baby on my hip, and push one palm against hospital double doors leading to an oncology and haematology day ...

Thought of the day by Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all.” — Over 1,800 poems. One timeless ...

The award-winning poet, whose forthcoming book, Night Owl, will be published in March, will be participate in two talks ...

There are many poets in Kerala whose words are read, many lyricists whose songs are heard, and many writers whose names find ...

Each poem is vastly different from the next, with a throwback to when the beat poets ruled, without trying to be ...

Romaine Washington writes about how a poem by poet-activist Claude McKay traveled decades to inspire the Black Panther Party.

Alex Caldiero, a Utahn who called himself a "sonosopher" for his mixing of words, sound and philosophy, died Monday at age 76. For years, Caldiero was the writer-in-residence at Utah Valley University ...

Spoken word poet Shahaddah Jack says if there’s one person who made her believe she could be a poet, it was her mother. “She always instilled in me that I'm enough just the way that I am and poetry ...