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.

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

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 ...

An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” David Orr is the author of a poetry collection, “Dangerous Household Items,” and three books ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are six snippets that get you started on creating your very own Singapore poetry canon. 1. “I want to taste sharp the petai” by Edwin Thumboo “I want to taste sharp the petai/Straight ...

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 ...

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

It is hard to write poetry about competence and doing enough to win. But here are the Yankees — five games into the postseason — forcing us to appreciate a proficient B-plus. They have ...