With these relatively short poems, you'll understand why poets are ... An icon of his time, Lord Byron (aka George Gordon) is ...

Life is short, and it’s better to live in ... emotions are guests we should welcome like friends. In a poem about life we’d ...

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 ...

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

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

This weekend showcases the endless possibilities in Iowa City from the Mic Check Poetry Fest to special film screenings ...

Andrew Cunningham, 29, spotted a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if customers send them a poem. He decided to test it out and wrote brand-specific short poems for 50 of his ...

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 ...

On Friday next, Lizann Gorman will launch her debut poetry book, entitled Everything Leaves a Mark, in the Cot and Cobble in ...

The result was a ‘found poem’, born out of the discussions among workshop participants. The poem was recently published as ...

Cypriot Australian poet Koraly Dimitriadis has won the Best Book of Narrative Poetry at the 21st Annual Best Book Awards, ...