Franklin Abbott’s newest book, “My Ordinary Life,” is more than a collection of story poems. It’s a quiet reckoning with the extraordinary weight of recent years. With a gentle yet unflinching voice, ...

TIME is running out for aspiring writers to enter this year’s Mairtín Crawford Awards for Short Stories and Poetry, which is part of the Belfast Book Festival. However, even with just a week ...

Poetry is a space to experiment with language — communications through this medium enables deeper emotional expression. This ...

They found that while personal contact with incarcerated individuals was the most powerful force against stigma, the poems were significantly more effective at humanizing their authors than news ...

Most people remember the symbols depicting his relationship with Glasgow by the following short poem: There’s the tree that ... the fish was cut open and inside the ring was found. Some versions of ...

The prompt for the holiday gathering held by my authors group was to bring a symbol of a favorite Christmas memory with a short story or poem describing its significance.

As a longtime poetry reader and poet myself, I’ve found that there’s no better way ... We’ve got you covered with both short poems and excerpts, as well as underappreciated works.

This is a poem that was first published in 1906, and tells the story of a highwayman - a thief ... I fell in love with words, and when I found something that, for the first time ever, showed ...