We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

Ocean Vuong is one of the leading literary voices of the 21st century. With a limited but influential body of work, Vuong's ...

Yesterday marked the ninety-fifth anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s suicide. It is particularly significant today that World War I played such a key role in shaping him. This war led to the ...

Dothan Houston County Library Director Chris Warren joined News4 This Morning to tell us about the newest Chapter Chat pick.

Tate Britain is set to return a 17th Century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector, after it was taken ...

Was distilled in a head that so badly wanted to undo me, It was as if she disinvented all the wars that festered and boiled At the edges of humanity for that sole purpose. But they are the ...

Poet Yusef Komunyakaa is to receive an Anisfeld-Wolf Award for lifetime achievement. The 77-year-old poet is known for such collections as “Neon Vernacular” and for exploring race, music and his ...

Polina Zherebtsova spent ten years of her childhood caught up in the wars declared by Russia on the Chechen Republic.

Written in 1899 during the Boer War, the Christmas poem starts by declaring “This is the year that has no Christmas Day” and stating that the children must play softly and the lovers must ...

Anette Ostro’s “The Golden Swan” tells the story of her brother, a Norwegian actor who was abducted and murdered by a ...

Music, poetry and joy mark the first Benjamin Zephaniah Day tribute - The dub poet, who appeared in hit BBC show Peaky ...