At the dawn of the new millennium, UNESCO inaugurated the annual World Poetry Day. Its aim was to honour humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Since then, ...

In recognition of National Poetry Month, the University home page features stories from the April 6 Princeton Weekly Bulletin on two faculty members who represent some of the many creative approaches ...

Poetry has immense reverberating power. Verse has that ability: We keep snippets and sections of it in our minds, carry our favorite poem’s lines with us like pendants, thinking on them in our time of ...

Poetry has mostly been a solitary experience, so it was a real treat for me to join in with the young children.

Poetry digs deeper than written or spoken words for Doyle Rowland Jr. of Muskogee. “It’s more spiritual, because you have to ...

Spoken word poetry fuses the craft of writing with the energy of live performance, turning personal truths into shared, transformative experiences. It’s about shaping words for the ear, delivering ...

The power of words. They can uplift, hurt, change lives. The power of teachers. They open minds, hearts and discovery through learning, sparking word and concept enthusiasts and creators. People’s ...

IOWA CITY — For Rudy Francisco, one of the most widely known spoken word artists in modern poetry, it started with a feeling. When he first saw a spoke word poem performed, he knew exactly what the ...