A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Since 1976, every February has marked the start of Black History Month. The month is celebrated throughout the United States, and it recognizes Black Americans’ vital role in the country. Literature ...

President Michael D Higgins has conferred the honour of Saoi of Aosdána on the poet Paul Muldoon.

Dublin City Council has announced a special anthology to mark 20 years of the One Dublin, One Book initiative.

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

History is littered with the remains of our innate desire to escape the monotony of everyday life and seek adventure. As ...