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At just 16 years old, Finn Maxwell already has a major love of the written word. The San Lorenzo Valley High School junior ...
The expression comes from the famous scene in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner ... beauty is a joy forever is actually the first line of John Keats’s poem “Endymion” (1818): ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, better known as ST Coleridge, was a poet and a critic, born and raised in Devonshire, England. His father was the vicar of Ottery and the principal of the local grammar school ...
The Board of Supervisors named Antonio De Jesús López San Mateo County’s fifth poet laureate. The position’s mission is “promoting awareness and heightening appreciation of poetry and the ...
Check out these Canadian poetry collections we're excited about in spring 2025! If you're interested in poetry, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. You can submit an ...
The Writing Now | Reading Now: Reading with visiting poet Michael Prior will begin at 6 pm on Tuesday, April 8th at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University following a 5:30 pm reception.
It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...
The City University of New York today unveiled “Dear CUNY,” a video featuring a poem written by the 2024-25 National Youth Poet Laureate Stephanie Pacheco, in commemoration of National Poetry Month.
Isro confirmed the successful re-entry of the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM-4) into Earth’s atmosphere, impacting the Indian Ocean on April 4, 2025. Launched as part of the SpaDeX ...
Johnny Tillotson, who has died aged 86, was a singer best known for his worldwide hit Poetry in Motion, a UK No 1 and US No 2 in 1960 and 1961; he went on to have a string of hits on both sides of ...
It’s called “Doggerel” for a reason: “These are poems that speak to everyone, that pun and riff and make fun of themselves a bit as they reveal something about the world.” Credit ...
Tillotson was perhaps best known for the 1961 hit ‘Poetry In Motion’, as well as other hits like ‘Talk Back Trembling Lips’ and ‘It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’, the latter of which was ...