Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...

Two Shaker High School students have advanced to the Poetry Out Loud state semifinal competition following their performances ...

The Union County Heritage Museum has announced that Nita Hardin of New Albany has won first place at the Northeast Regional ...

Paola Capó-García says she hopes to create original and inclusive works intended to engage San Diegans through poetry, inspire critical thinking, and foster deeper community connections.

San Diego has named Paola Capó-García as its third Poet Laureate since the program began in 2020. A former journalist and ...

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural imagination, Caleb Femi’s rave-influenced poetry collection and new novels by Adam ...

In this classroom, only English is spoken. The teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), enforces this rule harshly — if you speak any other language, you get a tally mark. At five tallies, you are asked to ...

Claude McKay's poems offer rich layers of meaning, reflecting the struggles, triumphs, and complexities of the Black experience. His work invites readers to confront difficult truths while also ...

Jan Donley thought of a snag as something negative, an annoyance or hiccup. Then she learned more about the snags in forests ...

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

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A Sahitya Akademi awardee and nominee for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Arundhathi is today one of India’s most prominent voices in ...