Poem of the Day, 12 Dec 2025
Rethabile Masilo, a Lesotho poet, writes strives to write with culture in mind. Author of "Mbera", "Waslap" and others, he explores identity, tradition, and resilience.
Poem of the Day, 11 Dec 2025
C. P. Cavafy’s poetry intertwines Hellenistic history, urban modernity, and introspective desire, creating nuanced meditations on identity, memory, political decay, and the poignancy of experience.
Poem of the Day, 10 Dec 2025
Rich’s uncompromising voice changed feminist poetry and political thought. From her early work, 'A Change of World '(1951), to the openness of 'Diving into the Wreck' (1973), and so on, she broke the silence surrounding women’s bodies, lesbian love, Jewish identity, war, and power.
Poem of the Day, 9 Dec 2025
Mary Oliver's style featured simple, clear language and vivid nature imagery, blending reverence with introspection. Nature's beauty and wonder fuelled her, urging deep attention to the everyday world.
Poem of the Day, 8 Dec 2025
Henry Zolinsky was an American poet linked to early-20th-century modernist circles, contributing to the 1931 'Objectivist' issue of Poetry. His work explores intensity, restraint, and the tension between resolve and human vulnerability.
Poem of the Day, 7 Dec 2025
Rethabile Masilo is a Mosotho poet exiled in 1981. He journeyed through South Africa, Kenya, and the US before settling in France in 1987. His collections—'Things That Are Silent' (2012), 'Waslap' (2015, Glenna Luschei Prize winner), 'Letter to Country' (2016), 'Qoaling' (2018), and 'Mbera' (2024)—address displacement, memory, and resilience.
Poem of the Day, 6 Dec 2025
Born Everett LeRoi Jones, Baraka was a provocative American poet, playwright, and activist who evolved from Beat influences to Black Arts Movement founder after Malcolm X's assassination. He championed Black nationalism, later Marxism, through revolutionary works like "Dutchman" and "Black Art."
Poem of the Day, 5 Dec 2025
Etheridge Knight (1931–1991), an African-American poet associated with the Black Arts Movement, made his literary debut with Poems from Prison (1968), written during an eight-year incarceration for robbery. His work uniquely blends Black vernacular, haiku, and powerful explorations of racism, love, and freedom.
Poem of the Day, 4 Dec 2025
Mark Strand (1934–2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator. U.S. Poet Laureate (1990–91), he won the Pulitzer Prize for Blizzard of One (1998). Known for surreal, meditative, often darkly humorous verse.
Poem of the Day, 3 Dec 2025
Sylvia Plath was a pioneering confessional poet whose intense imagery, emotional honesty, and innovative style reshaped modern literature. Her work, including Ariel and The Bell Jar, explores identity, ambition, and mental struggle... with enduring influence.
Poem of the Day, 2 Dec 2025
Andrea Gibson’s poetry is raw, powerful, and deeply emotional. It explores love, identity, gender, trauma, and social justice with vulnerability and courage, blending spoken word rhythm with personal and political insight.
Poem of the Day, 1 Dec 2025
Hala Alyan, acclaimed novelist, poet and author of 'The Moon That Turns You Back', writes lyrically about displacement, inheritance, and identity, blending psychological insight with vivid, border-crossing storytelling.
Poem of the Day, 30 Nov 2025
A prolific South African poet, essayist, and novelist from Port Elizabeth, Abigail delves into themes of trauma, mental illness, familial dysfunction, postcolonial identity, feminism, and the lingering shadows of apartheid through raw, confessional prose-poetry and fiction?
Poem of the Day, 29 Nov 2025
Harry Owen, originally from Liverpool, was Cheshire’s first Poet Laureate (2003). He moved to South Africa’s Eastern Cape in 2008 and earned a PhD in Creative Writing (2024). His outspoken eco-poetry blends vivid natural imagery with urgent social and environmental conscience, addressing extinction, inequality, displacement, and humanity’s bond with the earth.
Poem of the Day, 28 Nov 2025
Mole is an English poet and jazz clarinettist, known for writing for both adults and children with wit, clarity, and rhythmic sensitivity.
He's won major poetry awards including the Eric Gregory Award, the Cholmondeley Award and others. His verse combines musical sensibility — often influenced by jazz — with accessible yet profound explorations of childhood, memory, social or political themes.
Poem of the Day, 27 Nov 2025
Li-Young Lee writes with spare, luminous language, often exploring memory, family, exile, and tenderness. His poems braid personal history with spiritual longing, creating intimate meditations that feel mythic, vulnerable, and timeless.
Poem of the Day, 26 Nov 2025
Lesotho poet Rethabile Masilo writes to explore exile, memory, love and human resilience. His acclaimed collection "Qoaling" showcases his voice and emotional concerns. He lives in Paris, France.
Poem of the Day, 25 Nov 2025
Louise Glück was an American poet renowned for her clarity, emotional intensity, and mythic themes. Her work often explores family, trauma, and identity. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Poem of the Day, 24 Nov 2025
Hilary Sideris (born in Warsaw, Indiana; exact date not publicly available) is a Greek-Irish American poet. Her collection "Most Likely to Die" reflects gritty intimacy.
Poem of the Day, 23 Nov 2025
Peter Trower was a Canadian “logger-poet” whose rugged, lyrical work drew on decades in British Columbia’s forests. Celebrated for his vivid portrayals of working-class life, he authored many books, including the acclaimed collection 'Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys'.
