Allen Ginsburg saw poetry as an act of exposure, “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, ...

Inspirational poems that’ll raise your spirits Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry ...

Other poets kindly waived fees. Irish publishers, particularly, were efficient, generous and helpful, although one did ask for €200 for one poem. I had to remove it.

Perhaps the most common and well known old Irish cure is that of using a dock leaf for a nettle sting. Rubbing the affected ...