Down in Ballydehob, 100 kilometres away, Kevin Ireland was expecting me and it was already midday. He did not drive and had no phone, although he told me I could ring Jack O’Connor at his bookshop in ...

When Eliza Acton’s second collection of poetry was denied publication, she pivoted. The result—an engaging recipe book geared ...

Irish writer Colm Tóibín on surviving cancer and US politics, overcoming a childhood stammer – and the indecency of looking ...

There’s increasing readership and possibilities of international exposure to our short form,’ added the editor and translator ...

The author of Curandera, which has been longlisted for the 2025 Ondaatje Prize, on Nigerian folklore, writing about women of ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...

Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month.

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

In tough times, Amanda Johnston is creating a community of gratitude with contributions from poets all across the state.

The author and poet Michael Rosen introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The space on the page The 'space' is a ‘friend’ to whom Michael Rosen can tell anything.