Poetry

When I first saw the news that Caffè Nero is establishing a new set of writing prizes, I was thrilled. Since the Costa book awards came to an untimely end last year, it's been obvious there is a gap that needs filling, a mechanism to celebrate titles which have the potential to reach a bigger than expected audience.  Read more

In the late afternoon of Sunday, September 19, 1819, 23-year-old John Keats struck out for his daily walk from his lodging in Winchester, England. He'd arrived in the city a month prior, leaving behind southern England's Isle of Wight for a change of scenery in the cathedral city of Winchester.  Read more

Amanda Gorman already knows you want her to save the world. "Young people are expected to rescue everyone, even when we're struggling to rescue ourselves," she tells me in the same clear, strident voice she used to deliver her poem "The Hill We Climb," which she performed at President Biden's 2021 inauguration.

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On Mar. 13, 2020, I posted a piece of writing to my small group of friends on Facebook. My response to lockdown during the first anxious stage of a pandemic was a brief prose poem told from the future, describing the choices we'd made in facing the virus. That night, a friend asked if she could repost it. "Sure," I replied, and that was that.