For 20 years, teens from around the country have come to Washington, D.C. to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud finals.

Lest you think screens have completely taken over teens' minds, note that more than 4 million high school students have been ...

Tom Angleberger is the author of the popular Origami Yoda series and the Flytrap Files series, as well as several other books ...

At 84, the former US Poet Laureate isn’t quite sure how he feels about his decision to retire. But he’s thankful for the ...

I don’t remember making any effort to memorize it; I just read the poem so many times that it worked its way into me, such that I knew it as well as I knew the theme songs to my favorite TV shows.

When Ada Limon became the U.S. poet laureate back in 2022, she took that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect or to ...

Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote of Tagore that after Greek philosopher Socrates, Tagore was the first and truest 'global citizen' of the modern world. Tagore himself wrote to Sarojini Naidu, ...

Trains came to a halt, cars pulled to the side of the road and no plane arrived or departed in the Netherlands as the country ...

Comedian Rosie O’Donnell has hit headlines after she quit Donald Trump’s USA with her 12-year-old Clay, swapping her life in ...

Surdas Jayanti is important because it reminds us of the power of faith, devotion, and art. On this day, people remember his teachings, recite his poems, and sing bhajans in temples and homes. Many ...

Eoghan McDermott and Alessandra Heredia, after he got down on one knee and popped the question on Tuesday April 29th. The newly engaged couple welcomed their first baby, Kevin Mateo, at the end of ...