Ghayath Almadhoun writes a transformative love poem as the beloved and the lover negotiate minefields and soldiers, Adorno, and a collapsing Tower of Babel.

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

Urdu poets Jaun Elia and Ahmad Faraz, both influential yet distinct, offer contrasting experiences of love through their ...

In "My Ireland," commissioned for Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day Festival 2017, Irish playwright and poet Stephen James Smith pays tribute to some of the most unique, funny, and oftentimes ...

Nancy Power recently shared on social media this emotional poem that her late grandmother Nancy Lichtenberg, aka Annie Carroll, penned about her experience coming to the US from Ireland.

In the quiet halls where whispers dwell, A treasure trove of stories to tell. Books lined up like fruits in a row, Adventures waiting, ready to flow. Pages turn, and worlds ignite, Imagination ...

“Then word spread, and pretty soon I was writing so many of these love letters, in exchange for ‘tea money’. It was only much later that I realised they were my first attempts at poetry.

Poetry has the robustness to hold us so that we can go far beyond the conventional to the substrate, the ground, from which our human representations of God flow. It can draw us to the mystery at the ...

When it comes to ringing in the New Year, few places capture the magic and elegance of the season like JW Marriott Bucharest ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

The novel follows demon protagonist Vitrine as she shapes and mourns a city she loves immensely. Read more at ...

The poet who was inspired to create masterpieces like the unparalleled *Axion Esti*, drawing on his experiences in Albania in ...