Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals. You may not ...

Join National Poetry Day Ambassador and children’s author Simon Mole and musician and TikTok sensation Gecko for their brand ...

The singular, disconcerting uneasiness that is so characteristic of Joy Williams’ fiction, yet so hard to pin down, is once again dazzlingly on display in her latest collection, “The Pelican Child.” ...

UNICEF announces poet and activist Amanda Gorman as its newest ambassador, ahead of the 2025 UNICEF Gala on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

Daryln Brewer Hoffstot is the author of a collection of essays, “A Farm Life: Observations From Fields and Forests.” My husband loves all the trimmings of Thanksgiving, particularly mashed potatoes. I ...

Chester, who died by suicide in 2017 at just 41, welcomed Draven with his first wife Samantha Olit, whom he was married to from 1996 until their divorce in 2005. During Draven’s Valentine’s Day ...

Previously unpublished poems by Seamus Heaney have been included in a new collection of his work available from today. The Poems of Seamus Heaney contains over 700 poems in total, including all 12 of ...

In a photograph of Seamus Heaney and four of his siblings as children, reproduced in Dennis O’Driscoll’s indispensable book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008), the poet’s sisters, ...

Of Flanders and France in a storm of pains. To the mellifluous voice of a far-off song, They have gone on a journey of ages long. They have left behind their earthly name, And their earthly body, to ...

A Russian girl and her Indian friend have gone viral on social media for singing a Kannada poem while cycling through a Bengaluru neighbourhood. Dressed in colourful traditional Indian outfits, the ...

Poems have a magical way of lodging in our minds forever — especially the ones we hear as kids. Whether they’re laugh-out-loud silly, secretly a bit naughty, or quietly profound, children’s poems ...

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