Marianne Faithfull, a British singer-songwriter and 1960s pop star who reinvented herself as a new-wave artist and ...

"Even though it’s been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak," said Mick Jagger of country music in 1995.

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a friend poem.

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Toi Derricotte’s poetry is a testament to the power of vulnerability and truth. Her ability to weave personal and collective ...

"He cleared his throat. 'I want to say something, but I’m not sure I can.' He scrawled something and pushed it towards me." ...

Prompted by Blue Monday, the BBC's special correspondent reflects on his struggle to find balance and joy in life - and a ...

Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

Yet can I really escape it? How much of my creative life is now affected by it, how many poems has the insidious smog crept its way into? Too many. When I come around, through the train window ...

The boiling water sound I am hearing is actually wind. If only I slept at night ... I switched on a light and saw that I was holding a book of love poems from Elizabeth Barrett Browning.