An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in ...

Willie Nelson's songwriting journey has been a longtime in the making, and it stared when he wrote his first poem at just six ...

We had a book not of actual nursery rhymes, but very simple verses ... Her collection, one poem for each of her eighty years, is "The Myopic’s View" (Ginninderra Press). Her book on young ...

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into ...

Estonian writer Jim Ashilevi premiered his debut poetry collection, "The Mouthless," at the Read bookstore in Tallinn.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Virginia ... We had a book not of actual nursery rhymes, but very simple verses. I often stopped for them to fill in the rhyming word.

Sounds eerily plausible. During the Great Plague of 1665, bodies were carted out by the thousands. Folk memory does weird things, right? Except… the first documented version of this rhyme doesn’t show ...

There is no going back,” Karen Solie writes in “Red Spring”, a controlled explosion of a poem about the ruination of farmland ...