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

Poetry writing workshops serve as a special sanctuary for individuals to unleash their creativity, hone their craft, and form meaningful connections with fellow poetry enthusiasts. These workshops ...

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an ...

So there was a real reason. Now, I've tried to write about this several times, and part of the problem is, there's no plot.

San Diego's poet laureate shares his vision for a poetry-filled future, his latest community initiatives and the importance ...

It has featured sculptures, paintings, fiber and photographs and, as of late October, spoken word poetry has found a home at ...

Former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge's "seriocomic" ode to Missouri includes plenty of references you'll recognize.

When I was a ninth-grader growing up in Encanto, I used to struggle with poems that just wouldn’t work out. After a whole day ...

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

The Coal Anthology, a powerful collection of poems, prose and photographs marking the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike, ...

The film rebuts that idea with a quote from Charles Bukowski, "Poetry is what happens when nothing else can." That does not ...