Sugar Hill Gang hit the airwaves, Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was crafting verses that could rival the best of them.
Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Rossetti and Zephaniah have all followed. Now, poet laureate and Yorkshireman Simon Armitage – has ...
The First Year is an original poem by Chimwemwe Undi, winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. It is ...
"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...
In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: ...
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Is poetry useless?
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...
The first official image from Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, has been ...
The proliferation of "y'all" points to a global cultural shift toward more inclusive language and merging traditions.
The CBSE Class 10 English (Language and Literature) Exam 2025 was held on February 15, 2025. As per the initial student ...
By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.
A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...
Through its long and diverse history, Valentine’s Day has evolved from an ancient fertility rite into a global celebration of ...