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

Celestina and Lawrence’s haunting background score by Adrian Copeland and Andy Cartwright add to the lingering sense of love ...

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 ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait” (1889) (image courtesy the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC) Editor’s Note: The following poems have been excerpted with permission and adapted ...

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Let America Be America Again ” by Langston Hughes. What do you notice about the ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

The indie-pop singer-songwriter makes her literary debut with ‘Eat the World,’ an insightful and introspective collection ...

27.5 x 18.2 cm. (10.8 x 7.2 in.) ...

His love is so strong that death could not even break the bond. The narrator also recounts how the angels themselves were envious of the soul connection he shared with Annabel Lee. The poem’s ...

“Then word spread, and pretty soon I was writing so many of these love letters, in exchange for ‘tea money’. It was only much later that I realised they were my first attempts at poetry.

This week is Sacramento Poetry Week and as of Friday there's still plenty of events left to commemorate the written art form.