Poet J. K. Kennedy discusses balancing humor with anxiety and/or grief in poetry and shares five tricks she uses to illustrate her emotions without letting them turn into quicksand for the reader.

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 ...

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

The wait to release the poetry collection may have been long, but the journey to where she is now took even longer, Shriver explained in the essay. “It’s taken me a really long time to get to ...

A mum wrote an hilarious poem in memory of her son's hamster. Julian Junior, 20, lost Bonnet, his pet of two-and-a-half years ...

Please don’t think me a louse.He wasn’t that funny, but he brought down the house ... Decided to go for a swim in Lake Eerie. A chummy old Mummy was no crummy dummy.She dumped treats yummy ...

Walter Bargen and Barbara Leonhard, two poets known and well-loved in mid-Missouri, recently released dispatches into the ...

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 ...

What could possibly be scarier than your old writing? That was the question asked by Oberlin’s Carrion Magazine last Monday night when it hosted its first ever reading, “Ghosts From the Past,” in ...

Yusuke Morii's sophomore outing, 'Route29' follows two outcasts on a surreal road trip and recently premiered at Tokyo ...