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

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 ...

Saturday will also feature an afternoon-long free Family Fun Day @ Dodge Poetry in Newark'sMilitary Park, a first for the festival. The event will fill various corners of the park with poetry ...

"However, what many may not realize is how heavy the toll is on children and future generations. Here, a collection of art and poems about the climate crisis written by children around the world.

The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza (Malta: Horizons, October 2024) is a collection of 42 original poems (21 by Ahmed Miqdad, 21 by John P. Portelli) which depict the state of being of the two ...

For the first time in more than eight decades, families in Des Moines, Iowa, will spend Halloween evening trick-or-treating.

It’s been 86 years since kids in Des Moines, Iowa, went trick-or-treating on Halloween. Thanks to a severe weather forecast, ...

Come to the library at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 13 for the Fort Morgan Museum and Library’s next Fall into Winter Author series with ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic ... J.D. Vance will be his running mate as he seeks reelection.... We have become a society of people who cannot prevent ...

POETRY WEEK. AND THIS WEEKEND, THE CULMINATION OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE WRITTEN ART AND SPOKEN WORD. AND ARGUABLY, NO ONE UNDERSTANDS HOW POWERFUL POETRY CAN BE MORE THAN OUR GUEST. SACRAMENTO ...

Andrew said: “The poems were never aimed to be anything serious, they’re just for fun. “I think the Scrub Daddy one was my favorite — we got a selection of sponges, a Dish Daddy and lots ...