I Would Follow This Poem to Hell and Back
Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...
Opinion: How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? Reading each other’s poetry is a good start
Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...
Woman pens poem about Petersburg, a city she has grown to love.
I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...
The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...
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Woman pens poem about Petersburg, a city she has grown to love.
PETERSBURG — Beth Calik, an amateur photographer and painter, recently discovered she has a passion for writing poetry. In the last two years, she has written over 50 poems on a variety of subjects.
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Verse therapy | Review of ‘A Blur of a Woman’ by Basudhara Roy
Kashiprasad Ghosh (1820s) to Basudhara Roy (2020s), Indian English poetry has walked a long glorious way; from uncertainty to confidence. We open Roy’s A Blur of a Woman and see contemporary ...
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When This Brilliant Author Died, She Left Behind a Legacy of Grief, Haunting Poetry and Surprising Resilience
Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...
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I Swear This Poem Didn’t Make Me Cry
Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures, but sometimes they try to make us see, and to make us feel in ways we might associate ...
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Penn professor Kathryn Hellerstein discusses Yiddish poetry translation at Kelly Writers House event
Hellerstein, who is also the former director of the Jewish Studies Program at Penn, has authored multiple translations, ...
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Mysterious Portrait of a Woman Discovered Beneath Painting from Pablo Picasso's Blue Period
"It is as if the portrait of de Soto grew out of the figure of the woman below as one style gave way to another. " “Picasso’s way of working to transform one image into another and to be a ...