Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Nâzim Hikmet was born on January 15, 1902, in Salonika, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloníki, Greece), where his father served in the Foreign Service. He was exposed to poetry at an early age through his ...

Richard Flanagan is drowning. Trapped in a kayak, wedged underwater, he sips from a pocket of air inside the Franklin’s roar.

Academy of American Poets Fellowship The Academy of American Poets Fellowship is a $25,000 prize awarded to one poet each year to recognize distinguished poetic achievement. Established in 1936 and ...

Performance poet John Cooper Clarke has given fans a preview of his newest work. The so-called bard of Salford chose BBC North West Tonight as the platform for the premiere of his latest poem ...

The University of Nottingham in England has issued a “trigger warning” to students studying various medieval literature, in ...

"Ratan Tata's legacy, marked by innovation and compassion across diverse industries, leaves a profound void in India, reflecting the enduring cycle of life and the impact of remarkable individuals." ...

Nate Tice is joined by Charles McDonald to preview the Week 8 slate of NFL games, highlighting the two biggest matchups and giving out one thing to watch for the rest of the particularly sloppy ...

Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892. By Alissa Wilkinson This film, based on Robert Harris’s 2016 thriller of the ...

Late Chika Kapadia, who was also a standup comic, shines in a documentary on his assisted suicide following terminal cancer. Shonali Bose & Nilesh Maniyar's directorial premiered at Busan, showed in ...

Both are found, for example, in van Eyck’s Virgin of Chancellor Rolin (Louvre, Paris) as well as the Donne Triptych by Hans Memling. Research, private study, or for internal circulation within an ...