Avbob CEO Carl van der Riet (right) rewards Moses Seletisha (Sepedi author and poet) with an award in the Sepedi poetry competition. POLOKWANE – Polokwane-based Sepedi poet and author Moses ...

The Sepedi language is a Bantu language spoken by the natives of Botswana, Lesotho, and Southern Africa. Sepedi names offer ...

It was such a place of safety for me," she remembers thinking. It was a "core memory" and the first time the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States − the first Latina appointed to the role − ...

In 2006, The Poetry Center launched its first annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls in Massachusetts (open to sophomores and juniors); since then, our contest has expanded into the other New ...

Lovely projections by John Boesche on Catalina Niño’s simple but evocative set (rich with suggestions of the waves and rocks of the New England coast that both poets loved) enliven and enlarge ...

Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry scene. But you won’t find them in many text books, ...

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators ...

This year, Dallas named Mag Gabbert as the city’s second poet laureate. Gabbert will serve two years in the position and follows Dallas’ inaugural poet laureate, Joaquín Zihuatanejo.

Denise Truscello/Getty; Penguin Random House Maria Shriver’s first foray into poetry is about as personal as it gets. On Saturday, Oct. 19, the journalist, 68, announced in her newsletter ...

DR Declan Ryan is the author of the poetry collection Crisis Actor. Monster is published by Bloodaxe at £12.99. To order your copy, call 0808 196 6794 or visit Telegraph Books The Telegraph’s ...

Mosab Abu Toha was able to escape Gaza, along with his wife and three young children. The award-winning poet talks about parenting in war and the devastation of leaving his family and friends behind.

Taylor Swift’s super-sized “The Tortured Poets Department” will finally be tangible. The 31-song version of her 11 th studio album, released this spring, has only been available in digital form.