In a photograph of Seamus Heaney and four of his siblings as children, reproduced in Dennis O’Driscoll’s indispensable book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008), the poet’s sisters, ...

Later this month, October 30 marks the death of Begum Akhtar in 1974. Fifty-one years later, when ghazals are mentioned, her ...

Stigmata draws on inspiration from a wide archive of practices and texts including body horror, postculturalism, queer theory and apophatic theology. The collection of poems combines the "sacred" of ...

Organisers said the event’s concept goes beyond performance and seeks to re-imagine heritage as a living cultural space ...

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Some people text, some e-mail, but there's almost nothing better than getting an actual letter in the mail, especially if it's a letter poem. "A letter poem is when you're addressing someone else," ...

A Buffalo Bills fan saw his opportunity for a once-in-a-lifetime souvenir – and took it. Josh Allen was leading the Bills down the field on the opening drive of the second half against the New England ...

Poetry is fantastic! It is a type of writing that is designed to bring out feelings (emotions) in the reader or the person who is listening to it being read aloud. How to write poetry. Poetry is a ...

There are lots of different types of poetry, but they often contain similar ingredients. The main ingredient in a poem is words. Poems can be about anything: they can tell a story or they can be a ...

Celebrated poet Nikki Giovanni published more than 30 books during her lifetime, and nearly a year after her death comes her final collection. “The New Book,” out now, serves as both an elegy and a ...