Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

But the real superpower of poetry lies in giving expression to our love, happiness and passion. From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice ...

During one of the e-mail correspondences between Meg Ryan's "Shopgirl" and Tom Hanks 's "NY152" in You've Got Mail, Kathleen ...

Poet J. K. Kennedy discusses balancing humor with anxiety and/or grief in poetry and shares five tricks she uses to illustrate her emotions without letting them turn into quicksand for the reader.

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

Here’s what I find really fascinating. A sizeable proportion of these writers were Irish women. These include (and are not ...

I’m sure somewhere in the annals of this blog series I’ve suggested that laughter and humor infiltrate almost every facet of our lives. They appear in our exchanges at home with family ...

Dorothy Parker, the sharp-tongued wit of the Jazz Age, remains one of America’s most fascinating literary figures. In WIT & ...

"Southern Voices," edited by Tom Mack and Drew Geyer, is an anthology of "sense of place" poems from Southern writers, including SC's Glenis Redmond, Ed Madden ...

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes you can judge a writer’s standing by it. My 1990s-era paperback edition of ...

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an ...