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Five writers offer a collection of poetry to welcome spring and, with it, light and hope during uncertain times.
In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...
A former leading IRA man says he has discovered a new way of dealing with the horrors of the past — by writing “conflict ...
It has now been introduced so that loyal blood donors can get free transfusion privileges for their close and immediate family. The National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has unveiled this important ...
“she wishes to change her last name / to her birth moms maiden name / doesn’t make sense to me / I am not her,” she wrote in the free-verse poem, titled “my child chelsea.” The comedian ...
The Quiet Geometry of Chaos is a collection of free-verse poems where the author explores emotions and identities in the context of social structures by empathising with individuals in diverse ...
I’ve seen this power in action while teaching the poem “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco, whose final verse declares, “I’d rather smell of musty, green stench / than of sweet, fragrant lilac. / If I ...
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?
Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...
The Supreme Court today dismissed an FIR lodged against Congress Rajya Sabha MP Imran Pratapgarhi for his Instagram post featuring a poem titled “Ae khoon ke pyase baat suno” and said “courts must be ...