I was never a gangster, I never sold drugs, I never carried a gun... I worked every day since the age of fifteen. I knew my virtues couldn't save me.

Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

The Y25 programme is a celebration of self-identified wāhine and tāhine, 25 years and under, doing incredible things for ...

Each poem in Kim Hyesoon's new poetry collection represents a single day, during which the spirit roams after death before ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

For the first time, English-language readers can engage with the work of Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal, a distinctive voice among South Africa’s younger generation of Afrikaans poets.

Matthew Arnold’s poems often reflect our search for meaning in life. Arnold’s best buddy at Rugby School and later at Oxford ...

Renu Khanna spends her time knitting, playing board games and reading. Often she opens her little poetry book, in which she ...

OP-ED. With the Arabic language as the guest of honor at the Avignon Festival, running from July 5 to 26, playwright Mohamed ...

“I loved him, but I was never in love with him,” she admits. Carol’s dad married them. Even as she walked down the aisle, she ...

America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ first verse celebrates America’s beauty, the other three ask us to fully ...