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

On this Day June 5, 2025

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

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

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

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

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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