For some marginalized groups, the simple act of creating music at all can be a form of speaking out against an unjust world. Our list of the 100 Best Protest Songs spans nearly a century and ...

Some poems evoke the drama of famous ... at a time when Oppen was a former and future poet. Is that an apple in Linda’s hand? It’s hard to tell. Maybe the fruit was a metaphor all along.

With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love ...

Co-edited by retired UB English professor Cristanne Miller, the book has also received significant critical attention and ...

A new map is being drawn, and 100 contemporary world poets ... and understand the museum and the time warps it leads you to. As aptly illustrated by the poem, You, Ocean by Nujoom Alghanem ...

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Jan. 16, 2025 Here is some of the greatest, most practical advice I’ve heard on how to start reading poetry: “A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A ...

The shipping forecast is both a lyrical poem ... on time. The last force 12 was the Braer storm in 1993, which formed between the Faroes and southeast Iceland. Accurate forecasting allowed all ...

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something ...

Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time. After all ... ve gathered the best love poems ...

Romantic intrigues, social rivalries, and human foibles are all observed with an unblinking eye that nevertheless refuses to judge. The carnage of the rabbit shoot, the intimations of mortality ...