Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

This year, the IALA is welcoming its new class of mentees for their fifth annual Mentorship Program—which will run until ...

ArtSpace/Lima Executive Director Sally Windle said the local art gallery has at least one outdoor event each summer, and this ...

The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...

• The La Jolla Community Center hosts a “Red, White & Brew Summer Happy Hour” from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at 6811 La ...

Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.

Matthew Arnold’s poems often reflect our search for meaning in life. Arnold’s best buddy at Rugby School and later at Oxford ...

Authenticity is obvious in paintings signed by Michelangelo. A painting from the same period, with the same skill, and ...

She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun fell out of the sky. And here sat Maureen, who had no one else to send ...

The NEA grant gave voice, honor and power to an audience of poets who nurtured the gift and returned it to society. May it be ever thus.

Canadian radio show host and poet Josie Balka talks to TODAY.com about her first book, "I Hope You Remember," and what her ...

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