World Poetry Day 2024: World Poetry Day is celebrated every year on March 21. The day honours the profound impact that poetry has had on our lives, cultures, and societies throughout the ages. Poetry, ...

Each April, the Academy of American Poets sponsors National Poetry Month. In recognition of Cincinnati’s extensive contributions to that genre, here is a collection of local poets who achieved ...

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” —Rita Dove. Every year on March 21, people around the world commemorate World Poetry Day, one of the most cherished forms of cultural and ...

Robert Burns wrote his first poem aged 15. By the time of his death in 1796, aged just 37, the Bard of Ayrshire had completed around 220 works of poetry. “He’s a man who worked hard on all fronts ...

Poetry Day is a celebration of poetry for everyone, everywhere. It’s a day when poetry takes to the streets. It’s a chance for you to use poetry to say things that can’t be said in prose. They mean an ...

“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it” – Rumi. Tamil being one of the earliest classical ...