For years, poetry was said to be fading into the background — confined to slim volumes on dusty shelves or to academic circles far removed from everyday life. Yet across Europe, and increasingly in ...

It’s 3 a.m. and the emails are coming in fast and furious. My iPhone is pinging like a Vegas slot machine that’s come up all cherries. What’s the emergency? I had just joined a discussion thread for a ...

At some point in our lives, most of us seem to have decided that poetry is too precious for us. That it requires sitting quietly, alone in a silent room, to really appreciate or understand. That if we ...

When French writer Marion Fritsch began posting short texts on Instagram in 2023, she did not think her work qualified as poetry. That was, until everybody else told her so. “When I chose my status ...

Jamal Cadoura has been posting poetry on Instagram since 2015. The 25 year old Michigan-based writer is known online as @Writingtoinspire, and typically posts simple black text over a white background ...