Navamalati’s eleventh collection of poems, I’d Once Erased Those Margins, is a thought-provoking exploration of the quiet ...

Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto ...

Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante ...

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. 6. Sonnet 20: “A woman’s face with Nature's own hand painted” (1609) Sonnet 20 is a poem that speaks of the intersection between gender and ...

While the Taliban claims that it is acting on Afghan culture, by banning women’s access to poetry it is acting completely ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

In the latest Kaun Banega Crorepati 16 episode, Amitabh Bachchan engages with contestant Mansi Laheru, a resilient postwoman ...

In modern poetry, a poet might also use line breaks to create rhythm. For example, in William Carlos Williams’ To a Poor Old Woman the woman is eating plums: They taste good to her They taste ...

Yuka Kanzaki decided to translate poems composed by a woman with cerebral palsy to send a message that disabilities never slow down people like them. “People tend to think that they cannot do ...

Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada photo A Maui woman last week became the first ‘Oiwi (Native Hawaiian) poet to win the annual National Poetry Series ... and the strength and tenderness I learned from ...