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Poem of the day: Kerry Hardie’s “Ship of Death”
After an unexpected Easter Monday hiatus, we have returned with another poem for National Poetry Month. We hope you enjoy “Ship of Death” by Kerry Hardie from The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s...
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National Poetry Month: “September” by Conor O’Callaghan
“September” by Conor O’Callaghan from Seatown And Earlier Poems It must be cliché to think, however brief, that light on a wall and our voices out in the open are the pieces we shall look upon in...
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National Poetry Month: “Spring Song” by Peter Fallon
“Spring Song” by Peter Fallon from News of the World. It was as if someone only had to say Abracadabra to set alight the chestnut Bloom and blossom everywhere, on furze, on Queen Anne’s Lace. A breeze...
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Poem of the Day: “Down” by Brendan Kennelly
Today marks the end of National Poetry Month, and therefore the end of our daily poems. We hope you enjoyed the daily dose of poetry. And remember, even though National Poetry Month has ended, every...
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Poem of the Week: Punctuation by Ciaran Carson
Punctuation This frosty night is jittering with lines and angles, invisible trajectories: Crackly, chalky diagrams in geometry, rubbed out the instant they’re sketched, But lingering in the head. The...
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Poem of the Week: Let it Go
This time of year is usually devoted to graduation ceremonies, a celebration of taking the next step, whatever that may be. Here’s to the next step. Congratulations to all of the graduates for the...
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Poem of the Week: Away
Away We have our own smallholding: persimmon tree, crawl space, stoop, red earth basement, ceiling fans, a job. Hours I’m not sure where I am, flitting through every amber between Gales and Drumcliffe...
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Poem of the Week: Tomorrow by Dennis O’Driscoll
I. Tomorrow I will start to be happy. The morning will light up like a celebratory cigar. Sunbeams sprawling on the lawn will set dew sparkling like a cut-glass tumbler of champagne. Today will end...
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Poem of the Week: “The Second Voyage” by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
It’s easy to compare Odysseus’ voyage to the voyage students undertake in college; whether a senior, junior, sophomore or freshman, those spiteful waves will rock you all year long. We mimic Odysseus...
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Video Highlights from Ciaran Carson’s Wake Forest Reading
Last week, Ciaran Carson visited Wake Forest University and gave an enchanting reading on campus. He read from his latest collection, From Elsewhere, and played traditional Irish tunes with his wife,...
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