It’s there, too, when life is less than rosy: when you’re feeling down, suffering from heartbreak or full of confusion. Even when you’re dealing with an agonizing loss, funeral poems are a ...

Traditional singer and composer Aileen Lambert, from Ballindaggin, Co Wexford, has been putting a new voice to the words of ...

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Elizabeth Kurian’s ‘English Ghazal Train’ captures life’s many tracks ...

“I love the way Harjo sizes up life through a common object,” Barber said of the former ... “A New National Anthem” by Ada Limón Zach Czaia, an English teacher in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said he loves ...

The legacy of an 18th century poet said to have inspired Robert Burns and known for his famous poem about “Auld Reikie” is to ...

When reading poetry a reader will interpret what it means ... Ballads can be based on real-life events, or created purely from the imagination to tell tales of romance, mystery and even magic!

And when asked why he wrote an autobiography in his 90s, the poet said he ‘wanted to open [his] heart, all [his] ...

Anger, humour and irreverence mark the poems in the new anthology, Wild Women. Writers include a former courtesan, a ...

Poetry also provides access points for students with diverse proficiency levels—including our English language learner students ... You faded behind eyes of pale blue. I watched life leave your eyes.