How the spoken-word poet uses art to speak truth about race, faith, and womanhood. In 2002, Louie Giglio, founder of the Passion Movement, invited an unknown artist named Amena Brown to perform her ...

Love, longing, and lament lend themselves well to poetry, as the Argives know well. Valentine’s Day is approaching, and there ...

The British poet tells the tale of a Russian-Jewish immigrant sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an unpopular landlord in 1911 Kit Wright’s work is a bracing reminder that rhythm is a ...

In April of 2014, my 21-year-old nephew Graham Parkinson, died from a rare form of cancer, after a long and difficult battle with the disease, starting when he was just 14 years old. He fought it off ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...

“My interest in the story is partly topographical,” says John Fitzgerald in his introduction to his new translation of The Lament for Art O’Leary (Gallery, €11.95). Fitzgerald grew up near Macroom, ...

A tongue-in-cheek poem about Donald Trump, written in broad Scots, has won a New Zealand Robert Burns Poetry Competition. Lorna Wallace's poem, A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows, was shared ...

Let me learn from the Brent geese their grey grammar of grief as they wheel in a bow-backed flock onto a February tide. Let me learn from these strong geese to map my losses with a cry, learn from ...