In recognition of National Poetry Month, the University home page features stories from the April 6 Princeton Weekly Bulletin on two faculty members who represent some of the many creative approaches ...

Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

WORD is a group of students who gather weekly to write and perform spoken word poetry. The Back to School show was WORD’s ...

Poetry can pull us from fear and ground us in our reality, but perhaps — most remarkably — allows us to sit with someone, to feel their pain, their fear, their love and the wideness of their ...

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Spoken word poetry is a form of writing so vivid, so alive, that to confine it to the page saps it of half its life’s blood. The performers all brought something to their acts that transformed the ...

A generation that only knows poetry as something quoted in romantic comedies or as the rhymes in popular music should return to the glorious source...and they'll enter another world.

Similarly, what defines a poet or a work of poetry? Many passages of literature are considered 'poetic' but are not classified as poetry, while William Carlos Williams' 16 famous and simple words ...

The Poetry Village, from September 9 to 13, 2025, will entertain spectators at the Parco Valle della Caffarella with poetry, ...

Why spoken word poetry speaks to many of us The 2022 Bangalore Poetry Festival is on. We look at Spoken Word poetry and how the young generation of poets own it.