Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.

Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.

Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.

I think it was his harp, I think it was what he longed to make with his hands for the world.

Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing,

A meditation on life and the von Neumann–Wigner interpretation of quantum mechanics

Five candidates have been shortlisted in the quest to find the Isle of Wight's first Poet Laureate.

With #Poetry amassing more than 93m Instagram posts alone, is the spoken word resonating more than ever?

Emily Cullen says she couldn't believe it when her son told her about the poem, which she had written seven years earlier.

Simon Armitage says he was inspired by the River Tees in the specially commissioned piece.

The prize was awarded June 3rd at a ceremony in Toronto. Alongside Young, Vancouver writer Joseph Kidney took home the $10K Canadian First Book Prize.

New York, NY (June 4, 2026)—The Literary Arts Fund announced today $7.7 million in inaugural unrestricted general operating grants to 40 literary arts organizations and publishers spanning 19 states, ...

Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.

WorshipWeb provides meaningful, inspiring resources for Unitarian Universalist (UU) worship services and personal spiritual practice.

David Henderson, born in Harlem, New York, is a poet, biographer, and cofounder of Umbra Poets, an influential collective of poets and writers who were central to the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s.

Irish researchers Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner were left speechless after discovering the oldest surviving English poem, 'Caedmon's Hymn,' in a book in Rome.

Connecting Readers and Writers Across the World

The £20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to Joy Is My Middle Name, a collection about navigating race, addiction and womanhood

Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.

Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.

Sienna Lee, a junior at Moorhead High School, was honored as the inaugural youth poet laureate by the Minnesota Humanities Center.

Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.