Down in Ballydehob, 100 kilometres away, Kevin Ireland was expecting me and it was already midday. He did not drive and had no phone, although he told me I could ring Jack O’Connor at his bookshop in ...

Poets range from Rudyard Kipling, Walter de la Mare and Lewis Carroll to Julia Donaldson, Michael Rosen and Spike Milligan.

Her contributions to Creative Writing at UTSA will be remembered for generations. ⇒ For more information about Barker, as well as her poetry and books, visit the Department of English. Barker is ...

Publisher Herman Graf, who died this month at 91, was the last of a breed. He came up in publishing’s heyday—a wild, chaotic time when the industry was driven by sheer force of personality and ...

The poem was met with applause from opposition benches, while BJP members largely refrained from direct responses. Mr. Tharoor later shared the full poem on X, with users hailing his command of ...

We are heartbroken to share the passing of our beloved colleague and friend Stephen M. Green, who died earlier this month. Steve served as executive vice president & chief investment officer at ...

The poems are redolent of spring, full of verdant growth and birdsong. Perhaps such happy poetry shouldn’t be so unusual, but Gay’s odes to such everyday pleasures as sleeping in his clothes ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life ...

A full 20 years later in 1994, the 45-year-old Foreman became the oldest man to win the heavyweight championship, throwing one perfect combination to steal Michael Moorer’s title in an epic upset.

Trilling cited Frost’s poem “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep,” which he judged as the most perfect poem of our time—“and see if you are warmed by anything in it except the energy with which the emptiness ...