Through its art, music, cultural norms or culinary traditions, the soul of a nation expresses itself in countless ways. Here ...

The lines which form a prelude to the published volume of her poems are the only ones that have come to light indicating even a temporary desire to come in contact with the great world of readers; she ...

Generations of children have grown up reading A.A. Milne’s stories of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre ...

If I Must Die' compiles poems, excerpts of blogs, lectures and interviews as a celebration of Refaat Alareer’s legacy and ...

W.H. Auden was, in the final decade of his life, an extraordinarily unattractive man, and was keenly aware of it. "My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain," he told an interviewer in ...

Auden's friends didn't sugarcoat things ... in the honesty of his weathered face. His poetry, like his appearance, was unadorned and honest. He was not a poet of grand romantic illusions but of ...

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

Radice’s translations include Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali’ and ‘The Home and the World’ among others. He died on November 11, 2024.

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

Why? What images or ideas come to mind? Why? Share your writing with a classmate or small group. Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “Bats” by Paisley Rekdal. What do you notice about the poem?

The Poem:99 Children’s Poetry Competition 2024 is now open for submissions. Entrants can be from anywhere in the world. Poems must be 20 lines max and be on the theme of ‘Spirituality’. There are four ...