With these relatively short ... of the most famous poems ever written, but it's also one of his most beautiful and iconic ...

But that's limericks for you: funny, punny and filled with dubious rhymes. A man hired by John Smith and Co., Loudly declared ...

Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short ...

From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.

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

Achebe’s works extend beyond novels to essays, poetry and short stories. His books can be found at Penguin Random House. Famous quote: “If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.” ...

ST PAUL, Minnesota — Later this week, the Funny Asian Women Kollective (FAWK) will be taking the stage at The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul to celebrate their 10-year anniversary.

MacAskill is the author of three previously published poetry collections, including Shadow Blight , winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 2022. Her fiction has previously ...

Dorothy Parker, the sharp-tongued wit of the Jazz Age, remains one of America’s most fascinating literary figures. In WIT & ...

Indeed, I think that when we dare to embrace poetry’s capacity to make nothing happen, we might come to a richer conception of those things we love to treat as battened down—stuff like doctrine and ...

The poems also hint that a baby is on the horizon, and McClure tries to envision how to safely bring a child into such a fallen world, where “at best, I can do an interpretation of justice/ And hope ...

May 2, 1934 – Sept. 25, 2024It’s unlikely that Lewis P. Turco knew he wanted to be a poet while he lived in Buffalo – he was just 3½ years old when his family moved away – but his ...