"We were none of us in the front line." Longley and Heaney had attended some of the civil rights marches in the late 1960s. Later, in a BBC Northern Ireland documentary he said he was "overwhelmed and ...
Ready to give new voices a chance to fill the role she’s held for a decade, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen is resigning. Sutphen, 71, is the state’s second poet laureate, ...
Today, 5 February, is World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). The Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and Nal’ibali, South Africa’s reading-for-enjoyment campaign, invite you to help spread a love of ...
The best-written poems capture emotions, experiences, or images using a lyrical language. But what exactly is a poem, how is it different from prose, and how should we approach it?