When grief seems impossible to express, let the literary greats lend a helping hand and provide some much-needed comfort with ...

Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, saw the Bangla language movement in 1952 against the imposition of Urdu by Pakistan. Five ...

Shiva: Poems After Oct. 7' by Rachel Korazim, serves as a response to Theodor Adorno's remarks about poetry after the ...

What is lost is fidelity. What is gained is poetry. Jawid Mojaddedi, who is attempting a more accurate translation, includes footnotes in his translations. Footnotes! If anything could make a poem go ...

A question about whether I was old enough to buy alcohol haunts me with brutal irony. By Nicholas Lezard I was in Waitrose, buying, as is my habit, a bottle of wine. I was at the self-checkout ...

Kathleen Culliton is Raw Story's assistant managing editor. She's been covering local and national news for more than a decade for outlets that include the New York Post, Al Jazeera, DNAinfo New ...

After she reached safety in a village away from the combat zone, she poured her emotions into a poem, typing out verses on her phone. Yaryna Chornohuz, a Ukrainian poet and combat medic ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...

Amanda Gorman, the nation's first-ever Youth Poet Laureate, delivered a heartfelt poem on the third night of the Democratic National Convention. In her poem, Gorman spoke about the American dream ...

Poet and activist Amanda Gorman recited an original poem on the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, in a follow-up to the historic recitation of her original “The ...

After President Joe Biden made her the country’s youngest-ever inaugural poet in 2021, Gorman explained to Vanity Fair what the poem means. Watch on Deadline “I think I was trying to sit a ...