But poetry isn't just for adults. In fact, there are plenty of poems for kids that ... But you may not be aware that he was truly a master of quirky poems. Raise the funny factor of this poem by ...

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 ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

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Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Multi-awarded poet, essayist and professor, Rebecca Lindenberg, shared poems from her newest book, “Our Splendid Failure to ...

The characters themselves could not be more different. There’s an aging star whose last grasp at youth pulls her into a ...

Here’s how he describes the experience in the new poem “How I Wrote Certain of My Books”: What is that? Borzutzky obviously means to be funny — he is a satirist, after all — but he’s ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

Courtesy of William Morrow, Crooked Lane Books, Mindy’s Book Studio, Hanover Square Press Three fun mysteries and a tense ...