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

On this Day June 5, 2025 at 13:33

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 this Day June 3, 2025 at 12:04

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)

On this Day May 28, 2025 at 14:43

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 this Day May 20, 2025 at 14:28

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...

World Poetry Day: Social media injects new lease of life into poetry

Life March 21, 2025 at 13:45

From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we take a...

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