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The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.

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In the debut author’s The Poet Empress (Bramble, Jan.), set in a world where poetry is magic but women aren’t allowed to read, a peasant girl becomes a prince’s concubine.

Fail Again Fail Even Better – The Struggles of an Obscure Irish Poet, by Karl MacDermott, published by Troubador Publishing, ...

Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...

The Now-or-Never Writers meet monthly to “rant, rave and wrangle” with aging. Mary Schinhofen says the creative bond is healing her grief.

A special panel will bring together distinct poetic voices to reflect on Gibraltar’s poetry and its dialogue with the wider ...

Uddalak Mukherjee’s article, “Let there be dark” (Oct 29), offers resistance against the tyranny of light just as P.B.

Writing is much like a high ropes course, Weston Morrow said. It’s about overcoming fear — fear of the blank page, of being misunderstood, of writing badly, of being vulnerable.