Writer Michael Salinger has some unexpected advice for anyone who wants to start writing: don't — at least not right away.

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 ...

A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) with assistance from his poet wife. It was ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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