Locally, Song of Lawino (1966) by Okot p’Bitek is widely recognised as a major modern African epic poem or a long, dramatic ...

Even admirers admitted his densely intellectual work could be “punishing.” Still, some considered him one of England’s most ...

Poetry meets couture: Hathaway’s gown, painted by Peter McGough, drew from Keats’ 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' to merge classical ...

The derivative 'divan' survives in English as a type of sofa ...

EPIC: The Musical was certainly an epic undertaking. The viral, sung-through musical adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey began as ...

José Chávez is a poet, educator, and consultant. He’s written two award-winning bilingual children’s poetry books that offer ...

The simplest and most defensible claim is that near-death experiences (NDEs) are much more common than many of us realize: ...

A hidden-in-plain-sight Victorian home in Boston's Back Bay holds stories of LGBTQ history. They're highlighted in a tour ...

Is that all that a poet has to look forward to at the end of the day? Ironically, it is Yeats himself who may be readily adduced by those who cherish hopes for a more sanguine outcome. When T. S.

Let us consider, for example, Kafka’s elegant diary entry on 2 August 1914: ‘Germany has declared war on Russia—Swimming in the afternoon.’ From Xiao Hai’s memoir Adrift in the South (Granta Editions) ...

Damien Deen placed second in the Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington DC on April 28th and 29th. Damien became ...

Wednesday, April 29, Bakersfield College had guest speaker Dr. Danielle Adams give students and faculty a fascinating lecture on the Arabian sky in the Fireside room from 1 – 3 p.m. Dr. Adams ...