World Poetry Day 2024: World Poetry Day is celebrated every year on March 21. The day honours the profound impact that poetry has had on our lives, cultures, and societies throughout the ages. Poetry, ...

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Veterans Day — originally Armistice Day — was renamed in 1954 to include veterans who had fought in all wars. But the day of remembrance has its roots in World War I — Nov. 11, 1918 was the day the ...

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” —Rita Dove. Every year on March 21, people around the world commemorate World Poetry Day, one of the most cherished forms of cultural and ...

Robert Burns wrote his first poem aged 15. By the time of his death in 1796, aged just 37, the Bard of Ayrshire had completed around 220 works of poetry. “He’s a man who worked hard on all fronts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a ...

“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it” – Rumi. Tamil being one of the earliest classical ...

Have we made a schoolboy error? When we think of World War One we picture weary soldiers ‘coughing like hags’ cursing as they wade through ‘the sludge’ of the trenches. We hear the ‘guttering’ and ...