“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

Outside the sky was bright blue with sunshine and the air a brisk 20 degrees. Inside the South Dakota Capitol, hundreds of ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

The class also includes scholars focused on media studies, political science religious studies and science, technology and society. The course focuses on California wildfires so students can think ...

Before diving into the hype for The Odyssey, check out the 1997 miniseries of the same name from NBC that hits all the major beats of the Homer poem.

There is much to look forward to. Thank you to everyone for your continued support.” Her message strikes the same encouraging, hopeful tone as Burns's poem. It's also a prime example of exactly what ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...

In a dark coincidence, the researchers point to California's current catastrophe as a timely example of their recently published findings. "In that publication, fairly incredibly, we use the example ...