I just didn’t think poetry was for me. Not long after, while writing funny songs for The Rosie O’Donnell Show, I developed a book of song parodies called "Take Me Out of the Bathtub." ...

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

In between the funny poems, I share serious poems about kindness, respect, and inclusion (and science and math and social ...

An art and poetry exhibition centered on squirrels might sound like mere fluff, but there’s more to “Squirrel Shenanigans: ...

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 ...

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 ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

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 ...

The singer-songwriter's first poetry collection drops October 29—and Cosmo has a first look with an excerpt.

Shortly after he was found, Julian's boyfriend Aaron Hayes, 18, requested a poem as part of an obituary and Julian's mum Beverley Griffiths, 59, immediately obliged. In just 25 minutes, Beverley ...

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 ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...