An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean, written and edited by the eminent British literary scholar Alison ...

Poems can evoke laughter, tears, and thoughtful reflection. Recent research has shown their therapeutic effects: how they can reduce stress, relieve grief, and increase well-being.

Part joke, part poetry, funny roses-are-red poems are classics for a reason: They’re a humorous twist on sometimes saccharine love poems and make for some of the best short poems for boyfriends ...

Mabel Segun, author of children’s books and Nigeria’s first female table tennis champion, died on 6 March 2025 aged 95.

Turcotte sent his friend poet/artist Tony Fitzpatrick ... ‘Exploding Chippewas.’ “The poem was nothing short of riveting. The hair on the back of my neck and my arms stood up.

Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you.

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19 ... I’m afraid that my family and friends will get sick. I miss ...

I KNEW I was a lesbian because I fell in love with my school friend when I was 15, although I did have crushes on girls ...

Juliana Spahr is a poet and a scholar. Among her works is #Misanthropocene: 24 Theses, which she wrote with Joshua Clover.

Glenn Patterson is founding patron of Fighting Words NI and director of the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast ...

As a child, when nice weather came around, I was told to put down my book and go play outside: You can read any old day, adults would say, reminding me that sunshine can be fleeting. The warm days of ...