As I weaved through the verses, I felt myself steadying on stage, anticipating the next line and delivering it with just the ...
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for ...
Poems sometimes leap to life and race down the page as fast as a pen can chase them. More often, though, they proceed at a more deliberate pace. And a lot of them don’t set out to be a poem in the ...
Britain has a fine tradition of poetry - think of wordsmiths such as John Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Ted Hughes. Such talent was celebrated as National Poetry ...
A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.
Santa Fean Arthur Sze is the winner of the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, awarded by the Library of ...
When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ... She suggested I write a poem. Poetry, she said, would allow me to explore the painful subjects I'd been ...
read four new poems and then a passage from his 2024 memoir There’s Always This Year, a book about basketball, life and ...
I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...
Each of these titles will stick with you and, perhaps, make you more likely to realize when you’re not seeing the truth. These books dispense practical advice on managing one’s ambitions—or ...
"The image(ry) comes first ... Hold Violence" recently became one of five winners of the renown 2024 National Poetry Series Competition. More: Columbia's Heather Bartel writes essays to and ...