Serrina Zou of New York City won the Margaret Reid Prize of $3,500 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style, for "Ars Poetica". 2,481 submissions were received from around the world.

Several poetry-writing workshops are scheduled, along with readings from award-winning poets from Iowa and from across the U.S., including Ross Gay, Jane Wong, Kelsey Bigelow, Paul Brooke and Iowa ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

The SABC has apologised after failing to air its Afrikaans television news bulletins over the weekend. The halt led to widespread backlash on social media, with the public and organisations like ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

A man shared the origins of rap music online and stated that the origins can be traced back to Xhosa people in South Africa.

A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're ...

Kicking off at 7 p.m., this lively community event will celebrate National Poetry Month with powerful spoken word ...

Plants are everywhere. You can find them in some homes, in parks, in gardens and in the countryside. I’ve just found out that plants have three important parts. The roots, the stem and the leaves.

THE poet Kahlil Gibran said that about trees – but apart from their connections to our souls, trees have a very practical purpose in our lives, as this look at the worth of one reveals: ...