Soon after Bill Buckley died, William Kristol published a column called “The Indispensable Man” in the New York ... of intellect and spirit. The poetry of Yeats has the same thing in mind.

In late 19th century Scotland the Walnut man, a performer in a travelling circus, has become frustrated with his tired act. Instead he wants to perform his poems and songs to the crowds.

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

In those days he wrote poems and stories (“an attempt ... but it was an essential part of becoming a whole man. If it hadn’t been for this late but indispensable education, I couldn’t ...

In the poem Island Man, Grace Nichols uses long and short lines to suggest the sea – look at the pattern in the stanza below: Morning and island man wakes up to the sound of blue surf in his ...

Santa Fean Arthur Sze is the winner of the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, awarded by the Library of ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss her translation ...

A recet video by the British Museum described how its cuneiform instructions could be followed to find the resting place of ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

“Manyoshu” (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves), the oldest anthology of Japanese poetry compiled in the ... government’s roster of “vegetables indispensable to the people’s lives.” ...

and even thumbed through his poetry collection, a true measure of the man’s fandom; and clad his children in Wilco-branded clothing more or less since they were born. And yet, as a familiar rasp ...