Tag: poetry

Cancer patients inspire new work by Poet Laureate

Poet laureate Simon Armitage has used the stories of cancer patients and their families to pen a new poem to mark Yorkshire Cancer Research's...

ON THIS DAY: Federico García Lorca is born (1898)

On 5 June 1898, in the small town of Fuente Vaqueros near Granada, Spain, Federico García Lorca was born—destined to become one of the...

ON THIS DAY: Poet Allen Ginsberg is born (1926)

On 3 June 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, Allen Ginsberg was born — a poet whose name would come to define a cultural and...

ON THIS DAY: Poet Maya Angelou dies at 86 (2014)

Maya Angelou, celebrated poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, passed away at the age of 86. Born in 1928, Angelou rose from a childhood marked...

ON THIS DAY: Shakespeare’s sonnets first published (1609)

On 20 May 1609, one of the most significant publications in English literary history quietly made its way into the world: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, a...

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