Today's word of the day 'venust' is an archaic adjective meaning beautiful or graceful. This story explains its poetic roots ...

In 2005, at the age of 24, William Horsted had his first poem published, in The Spectator. He still has a copy of the ...

Literary podcasts are like year-round writers festivals – and there’s an Australian one out there for every taste, from ...

Join Josh and Ollie as they team up with YBM to launch a British English series, diving into key differences between British and American pronunciation, vocabulary, and expressions. From words like ...

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...

The word 'muse' comes from the Greek 'Mousa', referring to the nine Muses of Greek mythology—goddesses who presided over the ...

File photo by Don Nelson From left, competitors in the 2025 Poetry Out Loud contest at The Merc Playhouse were Liam Kiefer, Firn Pepper, Aliyah Odion, third-place finisher Elliot Pixie-Plott, ...

While commenting on the gatekeeping of the English language, Bruce Gilley, in his essay “Guarding the Gates of Our Language,” argues that once a culture loses control over its language, everything ...

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis poet, wife and mother, was shot and killed Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, setting off nationwide protests over the ...