Some people may think that Irish poetry is primarily about politics and patriotism, but the lyric voice is ever-present.

Willie Nelson's songwriting journey has been a longtime in the making, and it stared when he wrote his first poem at just six ...

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It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

Check out these Canadian poetry collections we're excited about in spring 2025! If you're interested in poetry, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. You can submit an ...

The deeply emotional poem has been metrically translated by outstanding poets in English, Latin, German, Russian, Rumanian, Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish, and other languages. The great appeal of ...

By Tas Tobey Tas Tobey is on the staff of the Book Review and is studying poetry in the M.F.A. program at the City College of New York. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

What came out? Poetry. From "Fragments of Me" They are everywhere. The fragments of me. In the closet, in the drawer, in the ceiling looking down. The fragments of me are all over the land.

The term “shanzhai lyric” specifically was important for us ... In Leeds, we created a hedge structure-slash-reading-apparatus that contained poems that were most in line with some of the things we ...

This story was originally published on March 30, 2020, and has been updated. A great poem can be there for you — just like other works of art you hold dear. It can help you process sadness ...