A collection of Irish sayings often read more like poetry than anything else. Here are ten unique Irish phrases that resonate ...

Across seven albums, Mitski has proved herself to be a singularly talented artist. But not all albums are made equal, so which one will come out on top?

In Oppian’s “Cynegetica,” the reader is invited to identify with a hunted bear, and we have similes comparing animals to humans ... and uses the pronoun “you”. Other poems invite directly the reader ...

Jess is as graceful as a gazelle. Try using metaphors and similes to make your own poetry or other writing more descriptive and interesting. Some similes are used a lot, like 'as cool as a ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...

Hyperbole, similes and metaphors are all types of figurative language that help to make your writing more interesting. They can be particularly helpful for creating an image of what you are writin ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an appraisal poem.

The poetry of Fady Joudah ... If hospitals and the Palestinian condition once served as metaphors for each other, they now belong to the same literal story: the latest phase of the genocide ...

Poems from centuries ago can stand in dialogue with painters speaking to their contemporaries, and calligraphy serves as a ...

In the hours since his death, a beautiful poem he wrote for her has resurfaced, melting hearts the world over. Their love story was legendary and enduring, spanning more than seven decades since ...

People often disregard anime movies as mere cartoons, but it's in these movies that some of the greatest stories take place.

At the end of 2024 South African poet Ingrid de Kok published Unleaving, a significant collection of substantial new poems.