I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure throughout my lifetime – ...

I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

YEARS ago, a friend closed his normal ebullience down completely, silencing himself for about 45 long seconds as he stared at the street’s ...

An appeal has been made by Dublin author Brendan Lynch for the repatriation of the body of Susan Yeats, mother of WB Yeats, to Sligo from what has been described as a neglected grave in a London ...

The publication of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” is an occasion to celebrate the Nobel Prize winning poet whose work extends Ireland’s extraordinary literary lineage. Heaney takes his place alongside ...

In This Could Be a Love Poem for You, her fourth collection of verse, Ranu Uniyal offers a powerful poetic account of her wrestling with the profound sense of loss that pervades her everyday existence ...

In an Irish pub in Perpignan recently, I saw it again. Lovingly painted in large, gold lettering over a doorway, it read: “There are no strangers here, only friends you haven’t met yet.” And just ...

Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado's renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago's "It's OK to Ask ...

In 16 wonderfully imaginative letter poems, Newbery Honoree Sidman imagines both sides of typewritten correspondences between unlikely pen-pal pairs, including a school and one of its bricks, a coat ...