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 ...

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There was once a time when open mics meant standup comedy. But with the interest in poetry has come a growing popularity of ...

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 ...

Malik Muhammad Danish is a young (serving) Pakistani diplomat with a passion for languages and literature —- ‘a polyglot, at ...

one — there are actually quite a few Halloween rhymes and limericks out there. And while these poems range from the spooky to the silly, they all have one thing in common: they're perfect for kids. If ...

Shel Silverstein was a master of linguistic mischief, using repetition and creative wordplay to amuse and prepare kids for ...

“During the pandemic, a high school poetry club of Indigenous students invited me to give a reading. I shared poems I’d written about murdered and missing Indigenous relatives, poems about ancestral ...