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

Think again. There are endless amounts of silly, whimsical and funny poems sure to give you a chuckle. Below, you’ll find a ...

Now, I tend to write funny rhyming poems. But as I tell kids at school visits, not all poems rhyme and not all poems are funny. But you’ve got to give poetry a chance. Here’s the first poem in ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

I desperately rummaged through my tote bag. The shopkeeper impatiently glared at me as if to say others were waiting, so ...

With a starry cast including Jeff Bridges, Bryan Cranston and Dave Bautista, writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski is counting on old-school movie magic from The Jim Henson Co. to turn Beowulf’s ...

Here’s how he describes the experience in the new poem “How I Wrote Certain of My Books”: What is that? Borzutzky obviously means to be funny — he is a satirist, after all — but he’s ...

A solo exhibition of the poet and visual artist Ted Joans is a mostly fitting tribute to an artistic visionary.

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

He shared his story—that’s how he planted a seed of inspiration and hope in my heart. So, I guess sharing my little stories with you might just be a way to plant seeds of hope in your life. I ...

Young, who lived in Wells, on the north Norfolk coast, used poetry as a way to channel her emotions. She will be ...