Poetry is not easy to compose, nor is it easy to write about. Like music, poetry requires a certain immersion into the composition one hears via their ...

We are proud to release a special poem called 'The Stadium Speaks' to recognise and honour the influential Black figures who have helped shape Manchester City. To celebrate Black History Month, the ...

The tasks of an eco-poet are by turn philosophical, aesthetic and activist. He or she tries to think more deeply about the true nature of our environmental threats while suggesting at the same time, ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...

"The Intentions of Thunder," the new collection of poems by the city's own Patricia Smith, is a gorgeous, heartbreaking evocation of her life, family and troubled nation. Tuesday it was named as a ...

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

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, ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – National Poetry Day, observed each year in October, serves as a reminder of poetry’s enduring power to stir emotions, spark imagination, and capture human experience in just a ...

This National Poetry Day (2 October), we’re celebrating alumnus Daniel Hinds, who earlier this year celebrated the release of his debut poetry collection – New Famous Phrases – with Broken Sleep Books ...

Stigmata draws on inspiration from a wide archive of practices and texts including body horror, postculturalism, queer theory and apophatic theology. The collection of poems combines the "sacred" of ...

TORONTO – Matthew McConaughey has a reputation for being a likable and cool guy. For those still on the fence, here’s some new evidence to that fact: The man wrote a poem about the ideal time and ...