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Charlie Chaplin was an actor, director, composer, and according to a persistent internet rumor, the author of a poem entitled, “As I Began to Love Myself”:.

Things may get steamy when fingers snap for a trio of poets in one of Rochester's finest caffeinated joints. Lisa Higgs, John McCarthy, and Tracy Zeman will all ...

Twitter's favorite astrologers, the Astro Poets, have launched a new podcast and you can listen here first.

Local 21 year old Bo Gallegos currently works at the Socorro Presbyterian emergency room. A long time poet, Gallegos recently produced a collection of his ...

OLDSMAR — According to a 2012 Library of Congress article, “The responsibilities of Poets Laureate during their terms are not well understood because there ...

Eureka's first-ever poet laureate David Holper, a mainstay in College of the Redwoods' department of English, applied for the position because he feels the city ...

Five students from Skokie were recognized this month for their way with words when they were named winners at the annual Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry ...

Before Edgardo Aguilar knew about the likes of William Yeats and Maya Angelou, he fell in love with the poetry of musical artists such as Tupac, Bob Dylan and ...

Gloucester local Stephanie Strauss is a 19-year-old college student, Taylor Swift lover, Instagram blogger, and now a self-published author. Strauss's book ...

In this winning poem from the 2019 Words Unlocked contest, a poet reckons with their mothers addiction and breaking the cycle.

This poem reminds me of when I fell in love with a boy from down the lake and went for weeks stumbling around without my glasses and calling myself “Sue”

Christina Rossetti By Emma Mason OUP, 240pp, £30/$39.95 Devotional Victorian poets understood the particularities of nature as manifestations of God's ...

Art was a frequent tool for Sadie Roberts-Joseph. The beloved civil rights activist and founder of the Baton Rouge African American Museum was a proud ...

Just in time for Taylor Swift's album Lover, the Astro Poets break down the zodiac by Taylor Swift songs, from "Bad Blood" to "You Need to Calm Down."

"Riverdale" star Lili Reinhart shared a "sappy nighttime birthday poem" in honor of Cole Sprouse's 27th birthday on August 4, despite breakup rumors.

A new collection of poems provides a nuanced perspective on the life of a father.

Maya Hawke started making music because she was crying too much. Like any 19-year-old *fresh* out of high school and facing the intimidating “What's Next?

Spoken word and slam poetry have become increasingly popular in the last few years. They have captured readers' attention for their rawness and beauty and ...

The Recording Academy speaks to 18-year-old poet Saida Dahir about her spoken-word debut, what her black-Muslim identity means to her, BTS and other ...

For her new collection of poetry, “Resurrecting the Bones: Born from a Journey through African American Churches & Cemeteries of the Rural South,” Jacinta V.

Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli, the great thinker behind the Roman fashion house, looks to sculpture to inform his beautifully poetic vision.

In search of some of the world's best poems? Check out this list of 50 great poems from ancient times to today, including Sappho, Shakespeare, and more.

Grace Shuyi Liew talks to Vi Khi Nao about art, life, and desire.

Love is a wonderful feeling that may almost seem unexplainable. Most people struggle to find the right words to use just to describe this feeling. For Elias Elliot ...

While many Detroiters believe the city can only progress with updates to infrastructure or an influx of business, Detroit's poetry community is asking that the ...

On Aug. 19 and 20, an unusual vehicle will make its way through Downtown Crossing. The refurbished 1952 Ford pickup and trailer, painted a whimsical black ...

Alvin Ailey dancers, Mustafa the Poet, and Valentino give new meaning to the idea of “poetry in motion.”

1946-2019. Mike was born in Mount Summit, Indiana to Phyllis Beavers Shively and Alan Shively. He returned to his heavenly home in Provo, Utah on August ...

Setting the tone for an upfront, personal account of romance and fervor, this question surrounds every song on the Regrettes' newest record, How Do You Love?

A Frank O'Hara Notebook. By Bill Berkson. No Place Press. 278 pp. $45. ---. Bill Berkson's "A Frank O'Hara Notebook" feels like a magical artifact, a kind of time ...

As a big music lover, I put Leonard Cohen in the same category as Bob Dylan. Amazing poets and songwriters, but voices so bad, it makes 75% of their ...

Memorising poetry was once common in classrooms. But it has, for the most part, gone out of style. There are good reasons for this. Memorisation can clash with ...

In tonight's Love Island final, contestants had to prepare and read speeches. Greg chose to write a poem for Amber, and it left fans in tears.

Want to pop the question, but have no idea how to go about it? If your partner is a big ol' book-lover, consider one of these 10 marriage proposal ideas for ...

Born in Rochdale, Friel, 43, began acting at 13. In 1994, on Channel 4's Brookside, she shared the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British TV. Her TV work ...

Fear not, Riverdale fans: Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse are still going strong. The on-screen and off-screen sweethearts were recently at the centre of break-up ...

Where in the world could an esteemed judge, a proudly gay man who lives openly with HIV, end 25 years of *service* with a declaration of love to his partner?

The thing about spending two weeks in a blissfully Trump-free vacation bubble is that it's pretty easy to burn up on re-entry.

One of WH Auden's most famous poems is treated to an entertaining dissection.

Australian music legend Paul Kelly has today announced that he'll be releasing a new book titled Love is Strong as Death: Poems Chosen by Paul Kelly.

In “An American Sunrise,” Joy Harjo draws on her Muscogee Creek heritage to celebrate indigenous traditions and to mourn their passing.

Scalawag Magazine is seeking submissions of ekphrastic poems engaging the work of Black artists in the U.S. South.

In a message sent Aug. 16 to the 40th Meeting in Rimini, an annual event sponsored by the Communion and Liberation movement, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, ...

The 91-year-old tycoon publishes a statement in newspapers that 'the melon of Huangtai cannot bear the picking again', a reference to a poem suggesting ...

ST. CHARLES – Lisa Macaione's love for St. Charles is so great that she felt compelled to write a poem about the city she has called her hometown for 30 years.

Primrose resident Karabo Phaswana (34) has changed, evolved and matured in the 19 years since he began writing poetry in his home town of Bulawayo, ...

How do you know when your love is true and that you are not just fooling yourself? How do you know that you are not merely infatuated with each other? How do ...

Paula Trachtman, an author, editor, teacher, and activist with a singular talent for bringing people together, died of a heart attack in her sleep on Friday, less than ...

When real estate mogul Donald Trump falls in love with a piece of property, things don't always turn out so well. Now that he's president and seems to be slowly ...

Writers draw on memories to create some of their best work. Morning Edition wants to hear your memories of home and where you come from — through poetry.

Since the dawn of the dawn of the phonograph, people having been selecting their favourite records to spin in the voodoo throes of love.

Actor Maya Hawke (“Stranger Things,” Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood) has shared a music video for her new song “To Love a Boy.” The visual features ...

Jamaican-born Canadian activist and dub poet d'bi.young anitafrika chats with editor Mila de Villiers.

In today's Londoner: Parliament given poetry in motions | Unity is brewing in the Commons | Lena Dunham's has Grand Designs | Jon Sopel floored by Trump.

Michael Dorf built the City Winery in New York City, or at least he seemed to, for people like me: older fans who still love music as much as when we were 19, but ...

Celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Borders poet Will H. Ogilvie's birth came to a fitting conclusion at the weekend. Ogilvie was born near Kelso in 1869, ...

I'm in a workshop room in a London arts center. Forty people, mostly in their twenties, are whispering and giggling in anticipation of the arrival of a celebrity poet.

Few films have captured the dual fleeting and enduring nature of intimate connection as poignantly as “End of the Century.” The film, an elegant three-hander ...

The romantic comedy Ode to Joy is a fact-based farce inspired by a story on the popular radio show “This American Life,” adapted for the screen by executive ...

Billboard spoke with A$AP Ferg about his new project, his love for female MCs, why he considers Big Sean and MadeinTYO his brothers, his first conversation ...

The Glendale Bairds is an epic collection which brings to life the celebrated works and biography of Gaelic poet Niall Macleòid, as well as the unsung poetry of ...

Three new tapes from the Netherlands' Counter Culture Chronicles, featuring the voices of poets Joel Oppenheimer, Hans Plomp, and Piero Heliczer, ...

Sonnet L'Abbé (Rachel Idzerda) Sonnet L'Abbé's relationship with William Shakespeare's poetry goes back to her childhood, starting with her own name.

August 26: That Poetry Thing: Women out of Line(s): Activist poets Anita Patel, Samia Goudie, Sandra Renew and Melinda Smith share works. Smith's ...

LIMPOPO – She won the award for the best poet at the event which was held at Soshanguve Community Hall. According to her, she is happy about winning the ...

Enjoy these poems celebrating the glory of man—including works by Charles Eugene Banks, George Washington Doane, Berton Braley, Quent Cordair, and ...

Samyak Shertok, in some ways, never felt closer to his father than he did after his death.

From fusion to ghazals to playback singing, the veteran Indian singer Hariharan has done it all. His songs with AR Rahman like Chanda Re...

Former electrician Cormac Lally turned his passion for poetry into a business where he writes wedding speeches in verse, says Marjorie Brennan.

In 1971, a 22-year-old Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum — royal but not yet a ruler — witnessed the return of sovereignty to Dubai at the end of British ...

This poem reminds us of the games we play with our minds to get through hard times, laddering down — then conjuring amends — to calm our own ...

The title of this week's poem suggests that perhaps the “he” in the poem is dead and unidentified, that his body has been found merging with the natural world, ...

Habib Al Sayegh was editor-in-chief of Arabic language daily Al Khaleej until his death on Tuesday.

Huseyin Abudharr Ali also claimed Hollywood is Zionist propaganda machine and compared Israel to ISIS.

By MIKE HANCOCK. Special to the PRESS. “Speaking of racism, as a boy, I used to love poetry.” Larry paused, a trickle of sweat inching down his brow. We sat ...

Rain dance Did the trend gods also predict this on-again, off-again, festival-cancelling weather? Or is it just coincidence that rain hats have found a way into ...

Basim Furat is an Iraqi poet and traveller who says there is no creativity without adventure.

Love Island star Montana Brown has written a poem about her late friend and fellow islander Mike Thalassitis. Mike, 26, died by suicide earlier this year.

When it's too unbearable to be outside, summer in Los Angeles can become the season for stowing away. Draw the blinds. Crank the A/C (if you're lucky enough ...

Shane McAnally was honored as 2019 ACM songwriter of the year at Wednesday evening's (Aug. 21) ACM Honors ceremony at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

THE chances were one in a million when Niamh Geaney set herself a challenge to find her doppelganger - no matter how far she had to look. Amazingly, the ...

The much-loved French poet Arthur RImbaud may have died 127 years ago but that doesn't mean his fans have stopped communicating with him, or raising a ...

August 20th marked one year since the tragic death of television presenter Greg Boyed, and his grieving widow Caroline Chevin has posted a poem in tribute to ...

Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka Shing, made the city's front page news on Friday (Aug 16) – but not in the way you'd expect. The 91-year-old property tycoon ...

Did you know that the late French poet Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac, has a blood relative with the exact same name? Having prematurely pa.

From nationally-renowned poet Anisa Nandaula comes 'How To Spell Love', as part of this year's Queensland Poetry Festival.

Within the Smithsonian's collections exists a telltale trace of the weapon that would change the world forever.

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 12, 2019 -- Mister Bill, a married father, grandfather, and great-grandfather who was born on a sharecropper's farm in North.

"Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to serve the deathless emperor! Skeletons!" So reads the blurb, written ...

We love the sea. But here is climate change at our backs, warming the oceans, spoiling all our plans. Here is the tide coming in.

In the astounding anthology that is Koleka Putuma's Collective Amnesia, the poem No Easter Sunday For Queers stands out as the centrepiece.

She's paying tribute on the anniversary of his death.

The iconic "Soul Train" television series will be adapted into a Broadway musical outlining the life of its 22-year host Don Cornelius. Questlove, of the group ...

I was at a social event recently with some high-powered academics. I mentioned at a certain point that a lot of my research and teaching centres on the theology ...

Recent release “Sweetheart Love Poems” from Page Publishing author Mark Kilgore explores the images and words that come to mind when that special one is ...

Laurels and Bells Literary Journal was launched in August to honour, celebrate and mourn those who are impacted by gender-based violence.

The widow of TV presenter Greg Boyed has penned a poignant poem to mark a year since his shock death. Caroline Chevin shared the poem on Facebook, ...

A MYSTERY has been unearthed in a village cemetery after a clear-up revealed a message carved on a gravestone in ancient Greek. Volunteers clearing ...

"Yet, here we stand, for the first time, woman to woman, bride to bride, taking first steps on a newly laid pathway, declaring this is love, enriching worn footsteps, ...

Looking for something to read? You're going to have to be more specific. Do you want a biography about one of the most ancient and irresistible human stories ...