So grab a handful of candy corn, pour yourself a ice cold glass of apple cider, and get ready to enjoy these five Halloween ...

One of my strongest poetry memories took place at a black-tie ... at the National Book Festival the next day — giggled at this silly ditty. A few people muttered, “Well, that was . . . stupid.” ...

It’s lots of fun to read and is usually very silly! Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and Spike Milligan are good authors to read if you like nonsense poetry. Watch this short clip to learn about what ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short ...

October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...

These extremely short pieces, published in 2018, fall somewhere between fierce poetry and story. The 300 stories are neither plotted nor linear; instead, you’ll feel as if you’ve walked into a ...

The launch of a book about the late literary figure is one of the highlights of Cork International Short Story Festival ...

W here you have ​ a girl and a looking-glass, or – in the case of one of Eley Williams’s short stories – a woman who sees her ...

If you are over A Certain Age, you might recall that short but rather self-righteous poem by Frances Cornford entitled, ...

Turza shows dramatic flair for summoning our attention, that of a town crier or carnival barker who was handed a surprise ...