Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

The imperial couple, to whom Meiji Shrine is dedicated, was known as prolific poets. As many as 100,000 poems are attributed to the emperor, while his wife is credited with 30,000. According to ...

Amid this clash of calm and chaos, Zoccola was on the “cusp of something” she could not yet grasp. She would capture this ...

Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry, novels, essays, devotionals, and autobiographical writings. We present to you this collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas ...

The Country Without a Post Office (1997) in particular, is a deeply evocative and politically charged collection of poetry that grapples with the devastation in Kashmir during the 1990s insurgency, ...

The first, second and fifth lines of a limerick rhyme. The same goes for the third and fourth lines.

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous ...

The 16th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) concluded on Sunday with a call to amplify "narratives from the soil," by ...