What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

The poetry inspired by these motives was the adequate expression of the ideals of the age,—of its shifting creeds ... and as romantic as it ever was in old times. Yet he is not satisfied ...

And the love story is clearly not a main focus of “Iliad,” as Troilus is dead by the time the poem begins. “For me, though, it’s more about everybody’s individual struggle with the monster of war,” ...

Q. In what ways do you think your work is relevant to the times we live in? Poetry is the living word. It is documentation of reality, as well as abstractions that invite fantasy. I believe the most ...

Ginevra, Riccardo Biagetti, Erica Brigada Villa, Luca and Giarda, Martina 2024. A Constructionist and Corpus-Based Approach to Formulas in Old English Poetry ...

“Old age should burn and rave at close of day,” wrote the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” If Donald Trump has ever read that poem — an unlikely ...

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 ...

There is likely no one among the more than two million residents of Gaza who hasn’t been touched by death in the last year of Israel's war with Hamas, leading some to confront their mortality and the ...

Jotting down ideas in notebooks is this 12-year-old writer’s secret Just before nap time, Anika Ann Anil conjures and ...

From managing treasured possessions to embracing a new lifestyle, a personal essay on transitioning from a beloved family ...

Old school and new school? Hip-hop legend MC Lyte begs to differ. Lyte, who performs Saturday, Oct. 19 in the Dodge Poetry ... not just rapping at the tender age of whatever that age was (when ...