Claude McKay, one of the most influential figures in the Harlem Renaissance, left behind a rich collection of poetry that ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

There are some names in the Arab world that have become synonymous with the region’s culture and history. Nizar Qabbani is one of them. But who was Qabbani and why is his legacy important? Qabbani was ...

Robert Burns most probably wrote the famous poem “Address to a Haggis” in 1786 for a dinner at the house of his merchant friend Andrew Bruce. Burns, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, ...

The death anniversary of famous Urdu poet Mohsin Naqvi was observed on Monday. He opened his eyes on May 5, 1947 in Dera Ghazi Khan and was shot dead at his residence in Lahore on this day in 1996.

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Authorities are currently investigating the events that led up to the incident. LONDON -- An elephant trampled a tourist on safari to death in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, officials said.

One of his final poems, “Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossom,” might be his most memorable, but my personal favorite will always be “September,” in no small part because it was turned into a song by ...

Celebrate the Fanny Parnell Poetry Project in Bordentown on Feb. 1 with poetry, Irish music, open mic, and support for Old ...

When was it that Russia invaded Crimea and you said 2014, you would be right. Yet this is not the first Russian invasion into ...