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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 ...

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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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The best poets and experts in prose are being invited to submit entries for Wolverhampton Literature Festival's poetry competition. In advance of the 2025 Literature Festival, which will be held ...

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.