We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Harrison Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot ... Another teacher who is also a writer asked me to elaborate. I was caught off-guard for a second, then I thought perhaps ...

For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

Hardly any English-language poetry ... funeral online provides, as cold comfort, the opportunity for elegy: These are the non-sequiturs of febrile, grieving thought – of a poet trying to come ...

Tillotson's wife of 45 years, Nancy, confirmed the news on social media Michael Levin/Corbis via Getty Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind the 1960s hit "Poetry ... I ever had come true.

RTÉ broadcaster remembers football icon’s wit, warmth and national legacy at emotional ceremony in Waterville, Co Kerry ...

God Bless the Child.” “I’ll Be Seeing You.” And of course, “Strange Fruit.” Ten writers and musicians share what they love ...

“Because wherever I go, I am putting him on my shoulders and taking him with me.” Saturday’s funeral and Friday’s celebration of life arrived on the heels of multiple vigils following the ...

It’s been a long time coming, but Tanaya Winder is finally releasing her first album, “Call Back Your Heart.” “It’s about ...

Scorn me not, but know I have the ... dead find their way into the afterlife. Short poems like this one may not be top of mind when considering funeral poetry, but it’s a moving option for ...

Not everybody gets to be buried on their own land after a funeral at their own church ... “If you create the habitat, the wildlife will come,” Mr Kingston told The West Cork People last ...