JRR Tolkien - full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - was an English writer, poet and academic. He is best known for his fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien is often referred to ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

Continuing an annual tradition, Colgate University’s English and creative writing department and medieval and renaissance studies program hosted its eighth Milton-a-thon Sunday, Nov. 3. Beginning at ...

Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, ...

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares ...

ISLAMABAD: Renowned Urdu poet and scholar Jaun Elia was remembered on his 22nd death anniversary here on Friday.

A DESPERATE REACHING: Last Wednesday, poet Noor Hindi led both a poetry workshop and reading with Bowdoin students, focusing ...

To many, poetry is a seemingly elusive genre—full of poem forms with too many hyper-specific rules or a litany of freedom ...

Have you ever wanted to meet award-winning writers and ask them how they write their works or why they chose to end a story ...

Do you remember reading Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology in high school or college English class? The free verse ...

Beowulf is one of the foundational texts of English literature, an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who takes on a fearsome monster named Grendel, then G ...

There is no doubt that each and every one of us holds stories worth telling, of life’s sorrows and triumphs, struggles and ...