The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for ...

FORCING the front door open, police officers took in the horrifying and bloody ‘slaughterhouse’ crime scene in front of them. Two badly injured, lifeless women’s bodies – ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, b ...

An early love of poetry kicked in after listening to Bob Dylan and reading Wilfred Owen. But there was always the Penguin ...

This weekend showcases the endless possibilities in Iowa City from the Mic Check Poetry Fest to special film screenings ...

"Southern Voices," edited by Tom Mack and Drew Geyer, is an anthology of "sense of place" poems from Southern writers, including SC's Glenis Redmond, Ed Madden ...

Self Portrait, his new RTÉ One documentary exploring the life and work of the Dublin-born writer, poet and artist whose life ...

Cystic fibrosis shortened Megan Tims Phillips' life but didn't make it smaller. As her mother hoped for more time, daughter ...

It's OK if you find some poetry boring or uninspiring, poet Laura Haskins writes, but keep looking for what you'll like.

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

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