Iowa Public Radio1h
Newly discovered poems show Virginia Woolf as a fun aunt
A researcher — who was looking for something else — stumbled onto two poems by Virginia Woolf. The silly, punny, quickly ...
PBS3h
Poet Amanda Gorman pens tribute to crews battling the Los Angeles wildfires
Renowned poet and Los Angeles native Amanda Gorman has penned a heartfelt tribute to first responders battling the wildfires and helping those in need. In "Smoldering Dawn," she expresses her fears ...
10 writers who shaped the music industry
From Sylvia Plath to Jack Kerouac, these writers inspired the likes of David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Lana Del Rey and The Beatles ...
The Paris Review8h
Making of a Poem: Emily Osborne on “Cruel Loss of Sons”
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...
The Desperate Housewife Whose Face Launched a Thousand Ships
In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.
In Han Kang’s Latest, a Quixotic Bird Rescue Expedition Turns Tragic
A 2021 novel by the South Korean writer Han Kang, “We Do Not Part” is now being published in English for the first time in a ...
San Francisco Bay Times18h
Don’t Be Afraid of Poetry
I grew up listening to AM radio in Boston in the 1960s; every day I heard the widest variety of popular songs from three ...
AP PHOTOS: Scrawled on walls of Assad’s prisons, graffiti express fears, loves of tormented Syrians
Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, surrounded by death and torture, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on his cell wall -– an expression of pain and ...