Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

who wrote some of the first sonnets in the English language. As part of the court of Henry VIII, Wyatt’s poetry was necessarily coded, not least because it is suspected he was Anne Boleyn’s lover.

This essay is part a series by Father Stayer, a professor of English at Loyola University ... For the rest of her life, hundreds of poems circle around the same mournful theme: her belief that ...

The First Year is an original poem by Chimwemwe Undi, winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. It is ...

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Rossetti and Zephaniah have all followed. Now, poet laureate and Yorkshireman Simon Armitage – has ...

Arundhathi is today one of India’s most prominent voices in English poetry. She had shown spark from her early poems, such as 5.46 Andheri Local, which appeared in her first book, On Cleaning ...

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

Jerry Villere leads the newest book library book club, which meets at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, ...

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Kashiprasad Ghosh (1820s) to Basudhara Roy (2020s), Indian English poetry has walked a long glorious way; from uncertainty to confidence. We open Roy’s A Blur of a Woman and see contemporary ...