Kate Tempest became known through slam poetry, as a result, she had a success as a writer and been inspiring the rap scene for years. She managed to bring literature and pop music together in a way that tot many artists can do that. The best...
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Poetry is one of the older forms of artistic self-expression and has been regarded as a magnificent way to communicate human experiences, the beauty of nature and other seemingly inexplicably difficult and fascinating aspects of the world. The...
Read moreA particularity about language is that is a human creation, and as a human creation it can be understood and defined depending on the interactions of each individual with their environment...
Read moreAlfred Bernhard Nobel (October 1833 – December 1896) was a chemist, philanthropist, engineer, inventor and businessman born in Sweden. One of his most important inventions was dynamite, among other things...
Read moreThere are many forms of literature, and poetry is one of them, poetry exists even before writing itself was invented, and it’s a form of literature that remains appreciated and popular to these days...
Read moreCan creative genius become a curse? The French poet, Paul Verlaine thought so, and he proved it in 1884, by writing The Cursed Poets, an essay about the life and art of six poets (including himself) A group of artists who lived a life of torment...
Read moreCan poetry exist in these times of YouTube and Twitter? Of course. Moreover, social networks can become ideal platforms of diffusion. The beauty of poetry lies in its ability to mutate, adapt and update itself. In this lies its validity as art...
Read moreThe South Americans have a great literary tradition, with an interesting record of styles and influences that have helped the world to get to know more about their very unique cosmology. Written primarily in Spanish and Portuguese, they probably...
Read moreThe Academy of American Poets created the National Poetry Month in the United States to encourage people to appreciate poetry and to become more aware of the power of poetry in expressing beauty, emotion, and universal ideas. National Poetry...
Read moreIf you read and write poetry, then you must be familiar with its formalistic elements such as rhyme, meter, sound and imagery. Poems are typically written in stanza form composed of a certain number of lines that are written in a specific rhyming...
Read moreSince time immemorial, men held the sole authority when it came to the field of the arts, literature and philosophy. Back then, they could not fathom the idea of women as thinking creatures. This became the reason why all manner of knowledge and...
Read moreRabindranath Tagore aka ‘The Bard of Bengal’ is hailed as the best and most prolific writer in India. He was born on May 7, 1861, in Calcutta, British India. As a writer, he wrote under many pen names such as Gurudev, Kabiguru, and...
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