One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Workshop - The Thread by Don Paterson from the landmark series exploring the pleasures of writing and reading poems. Presented, ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a "Just Like (blank)" poem.

Nollaig has been writing poetry since the 1990s. Reflecting her training in psychology, her poems tend to explore human relationships and interactions. She is an active member of Sherkin Island Haiku ...

A Sahitya Akademi awardee and nominee for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Arundhathi is today one of India’s most prominent voices in ...

Through poetry, Ariv Gupta shows how being your true self is the key to connection. The third-year computer science student ...

I don’t hate this one but I feel like he could do better still. I like the rhyme and it feels like he put a bit of effort into it, I just feel like it’s not very personalised to me. I’d probably give ...

Geeta Tripathee is known for her contributions as a poet, lyricist, essayist, literary critic, and scholar in Nepali literature. I met her at Ratna Rajya College, where she teaches, and we enjoyed an ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Write Action is sponsoring a special 2025 Poems Around Town event, and has issued a call for poetry submissions.