One of Burns's most scathing, and certainly his most famous attack on religious hypocrisy is the satire 'Holy Willie's Prayer'. Written in 1785, the poem was inspired by William Fisher ...

Back after a 16-year-long gap, poet extraordinaire Jeet Thayil’s new collection of poems mirrors the times we live in ...

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war. by ...

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem. I don’t remember the poem, but do remember her reading of it demanded my attention.

Zaffar Kunial's poem Prayer recalls his father's very first words to him as a new born baby and reminds him of the last words he whispered into his dying mother's ear. Writing in the Irish Times ...