WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- If you haven't been paying attention, allow me to point out a glaring omission in the lineup for this year's Palm Beach Poetry Festival. The annual event, staged this week at ...

May 12 (UPI) --National Limerick Day, celebrated annually on May 12, marks the birthday of Edward Lear, the English writer who popularized the comedic style of poetry. The holiday's exact origins are ...

Billy-Boy Wordsworth defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Fitting then, we should apply this definition when we speak of fabulous fare. See if you can relate to this week ...

"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." Have you ever thought of this college-life motto as the work of a professional writer? Ogden Nash: America's Laureate of Light Verse, written by Douglas Parker ...

Restoration of tombstone of poet Michael Hogan, Bard of Thomond, which was among tombstones damaged by vandals in Mount Saint Laurence Cemetery, Limerick. Report shows old photographs of Michael Hogan ...

Alcoholism claimed the well-loved Limerick native at 58, 25 years ago next month, but his legacy is celebrated in his home town in annual festival, writes Liam Collins Michael Hartnett photographed at ...

THE ONLY copy of a new collection of work by Limerick poet Desmond O’Grady that was lost at a horse fair has been returned. The manuscript went missing at Spancil Hill Horse Fair seven weeks ago when ...