Arizona is in the process of looking for a new poet laureate. Alberto Rios was the first person to serve in that role — his ...

Tahira Rajwani was only 15 years old when she first stepped on stage to perform her original spoken word poetry, but she says ...

Guru Dutt cuts to the chase early on in Pyaasa. He opens the film, about a brilliant but unsuccessful poet, with a verse “Ye ...

Lesley Storm legally changed her name in August 2010 and had gender confirmation surgery in January 2014 in Brighton. She ...

Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.

Mottley's latest novel follows three young women as they navigate pregnancy and motherhood in a small town in Florida. She ...

This year, the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) is excited to welcome its new class of mentees for its fifth annual mentorship program, which will run until August 31, 2025.

In the stillness of dawn, just as the sun began to stretch its light across the sky, my grandmother would already be rising ...

Gender roles are rapidly changing, though, and both men and women are being encouraged to develop a full range of emotional and social skills. Women have indeed come a very, very long way. In the US, ...

You might have meant a ladies’ magazine which has a party line as rigid and sterile as that of, say, either the Communist or ...

Guru Dutt introduced a visual grammar rarely seen in Indian cinema at that time — deep shadows, noir-inspired frames, long ...

At 90, Earl Lovelace is still writing. Not for acclaim or completion, but because it remains, quite simply, what he was meant to do. “It was something I thought I ...