Independent local publisher Āporo Press is thrilled to announce it will publish three new titles by March 2026. The press, ...

Meeting is taking place during Ramadan this year, and much of its programming echoes the communal nature of the holy month.

There is an oblix on top of one of our volcanos in Auckland that commemorates the Māori race because at the turn of the 1900s ...

New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

“Immersive entertainment can complement the music, with beautifully dressed entertainers offering hors d’oeuvres or drinks, station-based activities like typewriter poetry or tarot ...

But maybe it was not science fiction but poetry, the art of intimations and intuitions, that enabled some writers to describe what had not yet happened. Then again, what we think of as intuition ...