'Nothing went right all day' ... a farmer inspects his waterlogged crop. Photograph: Ian Hodgson/Reuters In Irish mythology, mist is often associated with transformation. In the legend, Lir's Children ...

The BBC's Focus on Africa programme has commissioned three poets from the African diaspora in the UK to write exclusive poetry on the theme of migration. Here, we meet 24-year-old British Ugandan ...

Josie Glausiusz’s wonderful May 25 Thursday Opinion essay, “Poems offered me an anchor as I lost my son, so I shared them,” set me off on a journey of memories, from nursery rhymes read to me by my ...

Su Yan-te (蘇晏德), a 54-year-old linguistic teacher in Greater Tainan, has found an innovative way to inspire children to learn Hoklo, also known as Taiwanese, by using short poems and magic tricks.

But growing up, the 26-year-old'sview of poetry was heavily influenced by those two men, "both of whom were writers who have experiences that I didn't identify with as a working-class Salvadoran girl ...

Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is ...

INTO THE MYSTIC Rumi’s Caravan evolved from a spoken-word group assembled some 30 years ago in Sebastopol. (Photo courtesy of Rumi’s Caravan) Born in Persia in 1207 C.E., Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi ...