Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not ...

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

Nearly 300 people entered the Herald purple prize for poetry, sending odes of love or hate about the invasive species that ...

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

At the end of my reading, one girl said, ‘Thank you for writing poems for girls like us.’ Her words stayed with me. This poem was written for her, for us, for Native girls who face heartache head-on, ...

Modern Love is a weekly column, a book, a podcast and a television show about relationships, feelings, betrayals and revelations. In this essay from 2016, a writer struggles to reconcile her love ...

Gloria obliged, balancing out Jay’s heady rhymes with spoken reminiscences ... After Gloria Carter told her son that she was ...

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized ...

In episode two, Taylor reads Garrett a romantic confession that includes a love letter her grandfather once wrote to her grandmother expressing his intent to marry her. In response, Garrett ...

Last Christmas, Emilia Clarke got a heart (OK, that film came out in 2019), but this year she and her castmates are in the ...

Singapore launches ‘Poems on the MRT,’ which is what a country like ours, still grappling with identity, nationhood, and ...