Why I’m Replacing Doomscrolling With Poetry
These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.
At 95, He’s the World’s Oldest Speedskater. He’s Gunning for 100.
Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a ...
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How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? Reading each other’s poetry is a good start
World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution?
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Commentary: How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? Reading each other’s poetry is a good start
Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and ...
I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them
The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...
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Iowa Poet Laureate Vince Gotera reads to IVH residents and staff
A U.S Army veteran who had his first poem published at age six was on hand Tuesday afternoon to read from his published works ...
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Why I'm Replacing Doomscrolling With Poetry
Among the poets he has relied on recently are W.H. Auden and Walt Whitman, poets associated with World War II and the Civil War periods respectively, whose poetry nevertheless retained a notable h ...
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Nobel Laureate Odysseas Elytis Depicted Greek Struggle for Freedom
Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is regarded as one of Greece’s major poets and a major exponent of romantic ...
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Columbia med school professor and poet reflects on October 7 grief
As he grappled with the traumas of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack and the subsequent anti-Israel acts taking place ...