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When Eduardo Martínez-Leyva first started writing poetry for his MFA thesis, he didn’t realize it would be years before he ...
There’s a new trailer making the rounds. For a film called My Oxford Year. It’s based on a book and stars Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest.
Typically wearing leisurewear, the Canadian radio show host looks into a camera in the soundproof studio she created in her basement. With a microphone propped in front of her, she records poems — ...
At just 16 years old, Kyo Lee of Waterloo became the youngest person to win the CBC Poetry Prize. That was in 2023. Now at 18, she is set to release her first collection of poetry.
I’d shut myself away in my bedroom and go over a poem line by line until I could recite it by heart. I’d wait anxiously to see who Mr. Lemke would call upon to stand and recite one of the poems.
This third-person adventure re-imagines Dante’s circles of hell as battle arenas, honouring some of the poem’s more memorable imagery, such as “the infernal hurricane that never rests”.
My first poetry manuscript, Eat or We Both Starve, was accepted for publication by my dream publisher, Carcanet Press in 2021 after 10 years of publishing poems in journals and magazines.
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – and a Peruvian poem has become an anthem in Italy. Here’s why. The 25 November is the International Day for the ...
Carl Phillips: For me, poetry is necessary, and not just the writing of it, the writing of my own poems, but the poems I encounter by other people, and living and very anciently dead.