Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

On the evening of April 17, the Wisconsin Book Festival held a public reading at the Madison Public Library. The event ...

Emi Sasagawa has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist for Lessons from a peach. She will receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and her work has been published on CBC Books.

I remembered a poem that Ilana wrote for school when she ... The Holocaust arrived in Budapest in 1944, where it stayed for a comparatively short nine months. Mr. Lindenblatt remembers the day ...

Wale Okediran is 70! 70, ke?! It is hard to believe. Many of the people who know him, I’m certain, would not believe it.

The two and a half hour program, at the Kauai War Memorial Convention ... up on snacks and gifts to bring home before boarding the short flight to Oahu, then the long overnight flight back to ...

By embracing the messages conveyed by these long and short poems. Earth Day poems are more than just catchy lines; they are calls to action, and expressions of hope for a greener future.

O n that day when the soul dresses in white and the heart beats stronger, every word spoken takes on an eternal meaning.

Worried poetry might put Grandma to sleep too early? We’ve got you covered with both short poems and excerpts, as well as underappreciated works. Read on for the best Christmas poems of the year ...

Mondale also attended the funeral of the short-lived Pope John Paul I later that year. John Paul I’s successor, St. John Paul II, had one of the longest reigns in papal history. President Ronald ...

Instead of writing long poems, Klecko divides them into three and four short sections including Strawberry Fields, Coney Island and Kettle of Fish. Klecko claims to “talk to everyone,” even ...