WPM was founded 8th of July, 2011, by 37 international poetry festival directors from four continents, at the 21st Medellín International Poetry Festival. Our first

By Katharine Coles During the last week in June of this year, the US Supreme Court, with its Republican-appointed majority, upheld equality in marriage for

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Poetry and Covid-19 is an international project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and led by Anthony Caleshu at the University of Plymouth

By Zoë Skoulding The microscopic coronavirus forces humans to reconsider their existence on a macroscopic level, as collective, as swarm, as massed body. Poetry, like

A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world’s greatest poets. No, Love is Not

By Steering Committee International Poetry Festival of Medellín The Medellin International Poetry Festival launches an international poetry competition aimed to select  10 poets from around

Louise Glück When I was a small child of, I think, about five or six, I staged a competition in my head, a contest to

The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) announces a call for proposals for the (Un)Infecting the City public arts festival 2021, which will run from March – April 2021. As South Africa grapples with

The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) announces a call for proposals for the (Un)Infecting the City public arts festival 2021, which will run from March – April 2021. As South Africa grapples with