Hector son of Hector is an Oakland poet. He is a child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories ...

Acclaimed poet, storyteller, and social campaigner Alhanislam explores why it’s not diseases that are neglected — it’s people.

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

And there is a Q&A with Carmel Harrington about her latest novel, The Stolen Child. Reviews are Kevin ... the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2025 has been announced by the ...

Reading was child's play in Irish libraries last year as Dog Man and Diary of a Wimpy Kid topped the list of the most borrowed books. The 2024 list was compiled using data provided by Ireland's ...

He was the one who used to make me wear clothes. He had borrowed his friend's scooter and took me to recite my first poem. It was his encouragement that made me who I am.

including the Bible and Homer’s epic poems. These texts reveal curious narrative and stylistic parallels with the Rāmāyaṇa, indicating how ancient cultures exchanged and borrowed ideas.

He was the first child to be killed during the Troubles. In helpless response I wrote “Kindertotenlieder” (“Songs for Dead Children”, its title borrowed from Mahler’s great song cycle: There can be no ...

And in case you were wondering, 2024’s most-borrowed poetry collection at the New York Public Library was Ocean Vuong’s Time Is A Mother, about the loss of a parent and the Covid-19 pandemic.

You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?

A Scottish schoolgirl in remission from leukaemia is one of five youngsters chosen as the inspiration for a poem about courage ... because it believes every child diagnosed with cancer deserves ...