The First Year is an original poem by Chimwemwe Undi, winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. It is ...

would write a New Year's poem to reflect back on the year's events. With Cashin's passing earlier this month, his sons, Arthur and Peter, sent this homage to their father: Some Other Cashins ...

This brings me to my very slowly coalescing new year resolution—to read more poetry. Edward Hirsch once wrote, “We ought to speak more often of the precision of poetry, which restores the ...

Emperor Naruhito touched on the COVID-19 pandemic in the poem he wrote for the New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 18, as he had the past two years. In composing his ...

Emperor Naruhito composed a poem about the aspirations of children he has met around Japan for the annual New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 22. The event’s theme th ...