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how everything was still & slow & i owed u everything even when i could only find u in certain lines of siken poems the sun's ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.

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An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...

The Western Mass.-based author goes beyond his popular Instagram wisdom with a new book of essays, poetry, and tools for ...

I wrote about Rupi Kaur — how her poetry is bad and I despise her success, et cetera. I thought that was all I had to say. But then, I was alerted to a poet. Her digital scent wrapped around my ...