Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...
Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...
William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th ... so honored for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit ...
Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
That Atuhairwe Agrace Mugizi’s short poetry collection Curera has healing properties, we are sure. It also holds up a broken ...
That Pippa McIntosh’s history of Abbey Lea – the residence, located on the outskirts of Dublin, of the Australian ambassador ...
What can an individual do when there’s so little hope while facing a chaotic four years ahead? Stand up and be heard.
At the root of Trumpism's rapid ascendance, and the pitiful resistance to it, is a profound failure of imagination ...
During these last three weeks, I have been repeating aloud, on the bus, during my walks, and at random times throughout the day, William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming,” particularly ...
Perpetual outrage, no matter how justified it may seem, is not a sustainable political strategy. Those who disagree with ...
On March 13, the series will host an “Irish Poets Night” in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, with John McDermott reading works by William Butler Yeats as well as his own poetry. National Poetry ...
As William Butler Yeats famously told us at another precarious ... the blood-dimmed tide that Yeats predicted in his poem “The Second Coming,” the center that unites us must be regained ...