Pashto and Dari Persian. Dari Persian is the most common language, with 78% of people in Afghanistan able to speak the language. Pashto is second, with 35% of Afghans speaking the language. A country ...

A sunrise dip and poetry readings got the 11th annual Poetry Day off to a sparkling start in Co Wicklow, as swimmers and poets got together in Greystones. Poetry Day Ireland is taking place across ...

Poet in Residence with Poetry Ireland Anne Tannam welcomes us to this year's Poetry Day Ireland celebrations... Why do we turn to poetry? Ask a hundred people and you'll get a hundred answers.

Check out these Canadian poetry collections we're excited about in spring 2025! If you're interested in poetry, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. You can submit an ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

But Tander has always cast her net widely, searching for poetry, songs of devotion, and expressions of love united by a spiritual yearning. The Wind continues this quest. Alongside Tander's original ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Publishing poetry on Instagram “goes beyond writing. On social media, there's a communication, a visual, an aesthetic and an audio aspect. Of course you must have a way with words, but you also ...

Jane (Veitzman) Muschenetz, MBA ’06, writes poetry that bridges the gap between science and art. Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying in high school English.

Scientific Marvel is a poetry book by Chimwemwe Undi. (House of Anansi Press, Imalka Nilmalgoda) Scientific Marvel is a poetry collection that looks into the history of and current life in Winnipeg.