It’s 8am in the morning in San Francisco and the 82-year-old Isabel Allende has already received two emails from readers asking for advice. “People write to me all the time saying they have diaries ...

KAREN PETERSEN has published poetry, short stories, and flash both nationally and internationally ... In 2022, her chapbook ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

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

Nearly 300 people entered the Herald purple prize for poetry, sending odes of love or hate about the invasive species that ...

I n one of the 50 marvelous sketches populating Eugenio Montale’s “Butterfly of Dinard,” a writer named Gerda asks a young ...

Artist Gérard Rudolf believes art’s function is to elevate the world, making it tolerable by helping us see its beauty. He speaks about the music, books, theatre and images that enliven him. After ...