Louise Glück

Back-to-school time! Need reminding that words and poems and learning can be fun? There's so many swashbuckling adventures, rude jokes, funny creatures, weird rhymes and new worlds in old issues of The Caterpillar. It won't feel like hard work. 🦋 bit.ly/caterpillarbac…

Congratulations Tracey Slaughter - an amazing year!

Gertrude’s Favourite Pfeffernüsse by Melanie McGee Bianchi. The third-placed story in this year’s The Moth Short Story Prize, chosen by Louise Kennedy ⁦The Moth Magazine⁩ irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

❛ Since when... are the first line and last line of any poem / Where the poem begins and ends? Poet Seamus Heaney, who died #OTD in 2013.

❛The answer to the still present threat of a silent spring is for us to sing against the storm – Richard Mabey, former judge Feeling inspired by the changing seasons? Still one month left to enter this year's Moth Nature Writing Prize and win €1000. 🍂 bit.ly/mothnature24

William Faulkner, read read read

feeling very two women on the shore by edvard munch

Hello September! 👋 We're welcoming in the new month in our usual tradition – will you share your favourite poem for September with us in the comments? We'll start, here's one by Jane Kenyon, 'September Garden Party'.

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The news is out! 🙌

ICYMI - this year's Moth Poetry Prize is now open... Add the deadline to your calendars to make sure you don't miss the chance to win your share of the €11,000 prize pot!

August, / where did you go? James Schuyler

❛ stab your heels 'til you long for it, / that scatter-glass sea, that sunburnt sky. Even / in this fine, cool cherry blossom breeze / you'll long for it. A poem about leaving things behind, for the end of summer. Kathryn Pallant's 'Bindi-eye', from Issue 36. 🌸 #MothArchives