Independent local publisher Āporo Press is thrilled to announce it will publish three new titles by March 2026. The press, ...

Claudio Castagnoli is clearly a big fan of the Warhammer 40K universe, with numerous references to it on his latest ring gear ...

Auckland's Pasifika Festival is under way at Western Springs with a raft of sound and colour. Events on offer on Saturday ...

On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was struck by how timely it is. The message is much needed at this time. I believe in “doing unto others as you would ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

She became the country's first female prime minister, after defeating its previous leader, who ruled Samoa for 22 years. Before that, she was the country's first female cabinet minister ...

“She’s just a really great person.” Students initially being taken aback by her basketball attendance gave Skillings the idea for a poem called “Sons.” “It was this innocence of ‘You ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The chatter had the energy of a freshman dorm during the first week of classes — just with a lot more heroic-looking images of Jordan Peterson. When Peterson, the controversial Canadian ...

To walk into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s stately brick home outside Baltimore is to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that small children live there. It’s not that the kitchen floor is a Lego ...