Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

The workmates loudly gossiping at a nearby desk may set your teeth grinding but rock star British poet David Whyte warns we need to embrace the irritations of everyday life - because if we lost them ...

Over a weekend at Perth Festival — the first from new artistic director Anna Reece — we're given a glimpse behind the scenes, ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

In this week’s poem, “two cents plain,” Anna Wrobel finds solace in of a glass of seltzer (for which the title is an old Brooklyn catch-phrase) and a wartime act of chance and humanity that resulted ...

Few philosophers have had the impact of Plato. Born in ancient Greece, this student of Socrates grew to be one of the ...

WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to ...

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