Many established poets published lockdown poems offering their perspective on the power of poetry to make sense of the pandemic.
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A poem about birds meeting in February to pick their mates is the first known example of Valentine’s day being connected with love.
Sylvia Plath left behind a complicated legacy. Contemporary writers influenced by her work must juggle inspiration with some problematic imagery – as a poetry expert explains.
‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ is now a treasured Christmas classic, but it didn’t start life that way – not in the UK, at least.
Ada Limón is the first woman of Mexican ancestry to be named U.S. poet laureate. Through her understanding of social media and the power of connection, she strives to make poetry accessible to everyone.
These books and poems give the women of the Odyssey a say and other new perspectives on the classic tale.
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
Poetry can unite people when all seems lost. The Conversation US has pulled together four articles from its archives that speak on the power of poetry.
Two poems that were originally excised from ‘Ariel,’ Plath’s seminal poetry collection, vividly channel the painful experience of losing an unborn child.
‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’ is one of the most famous American poems. But who wrote it?
Many early stories praise her work ethic and devotion. But with Mrs. Claus usually hitting the North Pole’s glass ceiling, some writers started to push back.
From Jaques Brel to Adele, those who sing of lost love owe a lot to the lyrics of the Romantics.
In popular films and TV shows, poetry is typically used to express human feelings. This popular wisdom chimes with findings in cognitive neuroscience about how language works.
Three decades after poet Frank X. Walker coined the term ‘Affrilachia,’ the region’s poets and artists continue to create work that probes the world of a people long ignored.
Doubt can be uncomfortable. It is often tempting to jump to conclusions. But Keats counsels otherwise.
Nigeria’s poet and playwright, John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo, died on October 13 aged 86
190 years after her birth, Dickinson’s life reminds us of how to confront the depths of loss with courage and hope.
Poems sing to us that life really matters, now.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
Chichester Cathedral’s stone effigy famously influenced Philip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb. But a new discovery suggests it may have inspired the tale John Keats wrote as La Belle Dame Sans Merci too.
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Lecturer in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University
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Assistant Teaching Professor of English, West Virginia University
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Instructor of Gender & Race Studies, University of Alabama
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Professor of English, Texas A&M University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Reader in Creative Writing, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Indiana University Kokomo
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