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 ...
These extremely short pieces, published in 2018, fall somewhere between fierce poetry and story ... thousands of people between continents every day. But then, of course, there are times when ...
October 3, 2024, is National Poetry Day in both the US and UK. What better way to celebrate than by revisiting Irish poet Seamus Heaney's "When All The Others Were Away at Mass," which was named ...
The group’s call for poetry was formerly limited to traditional haiku. To appeal to more participants, the call now welcomes haiku and other short, three- and four-line poems. This year ...
Open to students of all ages, the competition invited submissions of short poems, 10 lines or fewer. Juror Simon Shieh handpicked the winners, whose poems will brighten the daily commutes with ...
I was so used to writing poetry, fiction and songs every day that I thought it would be ... I had also published seven or eight short stories in journals and magazines across Ireland, India ...