On World Poetry Day, we look at how people are sometimes compelled to express their feelings and ideas through poems. This Tuesday is World Poetry Day, and we are taking note of this day on NPR. May ...

At the dawn of the new millennium, UNESCO inaugurated the annual World Poetry Day. Its aim was to honour humanity's most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Since then, ...

World Poetry Day celebrated on March 21 every year is dedicated to one of the oldest forms of human expression. Speaking to us on the occasion, celebrated poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter,and film ...

In 1999, UNESCO named March 21 World Poetry Day. Since then, it has been celebrated every year and recognized by those who value poetry in their lives or acknowledge its importance in the history of ...

It’s #WorldPoetryDay! Celebrate with us by enjoying these examples of incredible literature and personal expression by poets from across the African continent. Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-born but America ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian American writer Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “We Lived Happily During the War” went viral across social media. Poetry can often help people make sense of the world in ...