A photo from a few years ago is the inspiration for a new collection of poetry. Jake Skeets says the image, which showed a ...

Among Ireland’s best contemporary poets, Paul Muldoon pours forth a river of words resembling (to this Midwestern reviewer, at least) not so much Joyce’s Liffey as Twain’s Mississippi. His verse feels ...

Jessie Haas charts equine evolution in Hoofprints: Horse Poems. The more than 100 poems begin in prehistory, contemplating the lives of the biological ancestors of the horse, then move through the ...

A sunny reflection on the obstacles a couple has overcome The Horse and the Monkey I tell you that I am horse, you a monkey, fated by the Chinese zodiac to remain together as long as both partners ...

When poet Derrick Brown moved from the city of Austin to more rural Elgin, Texas, he was searching for “a peaceful plot of land to hunker down.” The pastoral surroundings, as well as the cycle of life ...

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Leona Lewis is the latest starlet to reveal her passion for horses. The X Factor winner has had a poem about horses tattooed in a line down her spine. The poem reads: ‘Their beauty captures every eye, ...