Poetry and community go hand-in-hand. Sometimes lacking a defined form but always full of heart, they create a space for discussing, relating, exploring, expressing, healing. This year's Free Verse ...

IT is odd that people who feel virtuous in spending ten dollars for a seat at the opera, or a hundred dollars for a modern painting (let us put it mildly), do not dream of spending a dollar for the ...

I have been reading Jane Yeh ever since I came across her first book, Marabou (Carcanet, 2005), some years ago. Since then, she has published two more books: Ninjas (Carcanet 2012) and Discipline ...

(Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Google has launched a new tool to let anyone create poems in the style of ...

In Spencer Reece’s poem “Ayer,” from his new collection, Acts, the priest-poet talks about his bishop, who “had spent the day visiting churches/ and a gypsy that was begging for the host.” The worth ...

In January, the National Endowment for the Arts released a report titled "Reading on the Rise," announcing that the number of American adults reading fiction had increased for the first time since the ...

The US president’s almost primal language is a source of widespread amusement and horror. But some have begun exploring its aesthetic power “I know words … I have the best words,” Donald Trump once ...

When Donna Ashworth appears on the screen for our Zoom interview, she is wearing a jumper with the word ‘poetic’ written across it in large silver letters. This is appropriate, as the 48-year-old Scot ...

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