On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...

American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness" ...

And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a ...

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, including 'Blood Knot,' 'Boesman and Lena,' 'A Lesson From Aloes' and 'My Children!

The poet Richard Le Gallienne recalled in his memoir how his friends were“all going round quoting the famous description”, as ...

Munch was one of the first truly modern painters. One who dug beneath the social and psychological veneer of the everyday.