Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even grown women sometimes need reminders meant for teenage girls. Melissa Newman-Evans, an actress and poetry slam performer, ...

Poet Safia Elhillo never used to write about her body. She felt safer writing poems that pointed the reader's gaze away from herself. "Up until this point, I only knew how to write a neat, tidy and ...

Teenagers get a bad wrap in our society, but as the spoken word poem "For Teenage Girls" by Clementine von Radics points out, teen girls can actually be amazing. The poem, which von Radics performed ...

Poems by a Little Girl, the work of Hilda Conkling, aged nine, are to be taken seriously, with no apology for the youth of the author. Hilda is as truly a poet as she is the daughter of a true poet, ...

To empower the girl-child to discover her potential through poetry, an ex-Corps member, Taiwo Thompson, asked pupils in his place of primary assignment, the Federal Government Girls’ College, Abaji, ...

Whenever I read Ruth Padel’s work, it strikes me: the profusion of species. Her latest collection of poetry, Girl, organised in three parts, is no exception. If the whole book could be a single ...