From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz ... a picnic poem (or a poem written by a mouse), and a short, decisive poem. All from kids who had most likely thought that poetry ...

Poetry has long been celebrated as a profound ... rhymes like "Hey Diddle Diddle" or "Hickory Dickory Dock." These short verses captivate children not just through their whimsical narratives ...

For fans of: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted ... These extremely short pieces, published in 2018, fall somewhere between fierce poetry and story. The 300 stories are neither plotted nor ...

Keating doesn’t have to tell readers how she feels – the poems speak for themselves. The arc of the poet’s life is glimpsed in the Table of Contents, beginning after the preface with “The ...

Peter K. Steinberg works to change the narrative around Sylvia Plath, highlighting her achievements and skill as a writer of ...

Considering poetry to be an invitation, a life force, a breath where we swallow words; a tap at the door to open to enter a shared space, Pinto began with a prayer, where the audience matched his ...

The foreign writers participating in this year’s Shanghai Writing Program are invited to take a walk in the city. Seven ...

Love letters, for instance—as of those between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West—fascinate precisely because they illuminate certain strictures within the artist’s life. In Woolf’s ...

The shortlist for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2024 features a diverse and exciting mix of exceptional writing . . .