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

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 ...

Friendship poems to celebrate your bestie Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any ...

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?

JIN explained that he is quite close friends with the famous South Korean chef and media personality Baek Jong-won. When Jonathan enquired more about their friendship, the idol continued to add ...

INFLUENCE: Adam Mickiewicz and Poetry That Acts is an attempt to carry out a fresh analysis of the work of Poland’s greatest poet. We are trying to look at the history of Mickiewicz’s global impact on ...