Now’s the time for “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” Terrance Hayes’ electric, new book. In his five previous poetry collections — “Muscular Music” (1999), “Hip ...

Its 66 sonnets convey the highs and lows of teaching A-level English, and offer fictionalised portraits of some of her adolescent students. The collection also draws on Lowe's own experiences as ...

When St Andrews University students Isabelle Bousquette and Tomi Baikie found no popcorn in Fife's Tesco branch they wrote a sonnet to Tesco and received a poem in response.

[Sonnet reproduced with kind permission of J Nathan Matias, SwiftKey — and, well, we couldn’t ask William Shakespeare but we hope he would approve] Topics Europe , machine learning , Poetry ...

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) figured significantly in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s. Though prominent as a diarist, journalist, and activist for ...

A Shakespearian sonnet always has 14 lines. They all end with a rhyming couplet (two lines next to each other that rhyme) ... For example, a happy poem might have short, bouncy lines.

Two students who wrote a sonnet to bosses at Tesco after their local store stopped selling their favourite popcorn were surprised when two months later they received a poetic reply.

Image caption, Hannah Lowe was named the winner at a ceremony in London on Tuesday A collection of modern sonnets inspired by poet Hannah Lowe's decade teaching in an inner London school has been ...