March 21st is World Poetry Day, a day to celebrate the beauty and power of words. This special occasion shines a spotlight on ...

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find in a poetry book? Maybe something by Poe or Dickinson?

By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist One of my prized pieces of Kentucky literary memorabilia is a two-volume set of Collins ...

Still other writings have yet to be translated and understood. The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings, however, are poems written in Chinese, many of them made all the more impressive ...

In A Little History of Poetry, renowned academic and expert on the subject John Carey puts it succinctly, “If music is sound organised in a particular way, poetry is a way of organising language.