One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a "Just Like (blank)" poem.

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

Unlike our everyday writing, poetry is artistic, expressive, and figurative. Understanding the subject of a poem The first thing you should do when given a poem is read its title carefully.

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...

Kirwan's play Accents — about the housing crisis — is coming to the hometown of his musical collaborator, who passed away at ...

Valentine's Day. Not only is it hard enough to find something enjoyable that will create a lasting memory, but finding ...

UL Creative Writing Festival will feature Marian Keyes, Joseph O’Connor, Donal Ryan, Paul Lynch, Liz Nugent, Paul Muldoon . .

The poet won a number of awards throughout his life including the TS Eliot Prize, the Feltrinelli International Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Prize, and he was made a CBE in 2010 as well as being ...

A mother whose 12-year-old son died in the Omagh bomb believes the pain of his loss will never ease, a public inquiry has ...

Nestled in the heart of Minnesota, Sibley State Park is a hidden gem that’s about to become your new favorite escape. Who ...

The next lecture on Thursday, October 24 will feature Sion Mills writer Maureen Boyle speaking about ‘Writing ‘Strabane’ – Blessing a Town Into Poetry’. In 2018 Maureen was commissioned by Radio 4 to ...