IrishCentral Contributor Éamon Ó Caoineachán reflects on Irish poet Paddy Donoghue's debut collection "Leave Taking." ...

At the time, I thought poetry was reserved for uniquely talented individuals, a belief that often silenced my voice. I would ...

Browse through the five poems we’ve selected for this page ... It finally dawned on me. My body is home. It may contain flaws. It feels fatter than others With cracked and torn walls.

Perhaps Carter’s most revealing poem, “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World,” concerns the man who never got to see his ...

Evan Freemyer writes that he penned this poem "to express the shock, alienation, and grief that I felt" after a principal and ...

December 30, 2024 • Peter Glarborg reads a poem by William Makepeace Thackeray ...

That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing ... transcendent” it would be “to cradle him / in my arms.” Keats isn’t the only romantic poet in “Romantic Poet.” ...

When my youngest daughter came home from school one day, she was very excited to tell me about a poem she and her classmates ...

It took poet Hollie McNish a year of attending spoken word poetry nights before she felt brave enough to speak herself. Now videos of McNish’s home-recorded poems have received millions of views.

You’ll probably know a bit about rhyme already as it is often used in poetry. Refresh your memory with this short, fun clip. You can sing and dance along with CBBC's Radzi Chinyanganya if you like!