Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

The first poem in Volcano, Eunice de Souza’s collected poems, “Catholic Mother”, which appeared in her debut collection, Fix, ...

Declan Lynch’s celebration of John Giles and his view that the RTÉ panel were the best on the planet (‘Thank you, John Giles, for putting brains over banter’, June 29) took me back to 2002, when my ...

I asked Google’s chatbot, Gemini, to write a birthday letter to my best friend. Within seconds, it spat out the most ...

Authenticity is obvious in paintings signed by Michelangelo. A painting from the same period, with the same skill, and ...

Now that the Republican Party is in power, we see the government infringing on virtually every aspect of American ...

Enhance every aspect of your life alongside sporting role models, discover the vast and beautiful poetry of the universe, ...

Geoffrey Chaucer’s 23-verse poem “A. B. C.”—written in the 14th century, before j, u, and w were even added to the English alphabet—is among the form’s most famous examples. Palindrome ...

Some of the best poetry in the world is written about complicated love, wrong love, toxic love, but in the spirit of Valentine’s Day I’ve tried to get over my own hang-ups and share that ...

Her message strikes the same encouraging, hopeful tone as Burns's poem. It's also a prime example of exactly what Prince William meant in his birthday message to his wife. "The strength you’ve shown ...

‘A Letter is a joy of Earth –/It is denied the Gods’, Emily Dickinson wrote in 1885, a year before she died, aged fifty-five, at her home in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was a joy she indulged freely.

An acrostic poem in which the initial letters spell out the alphabet is called an " abecedarius." Interestingly, there are several abecedarian poems in the Bible (based on the Hebrew alphabet).