Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...
Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.
UVa professor A.D. Carson's doctoral dissertation rap album "Owning My Masters" promises "the poems that people are scared to say out loud." ...
Young Brits aren't keen on classic love poems this Valentine's Day with most thinking the works of Shakespeare and Keats are ...
Jeet Thayil turns a mirror to the country and himself in his new book. Gandhi is reborn as a house gecko, the government is fake and his love grows wings and flies away.
At the New Delhi World Book Fair 2025, six contemporary poets explore how words and visuals merge to reshape poetic expression.
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 ...
It's time to send out the Christmas newsletter again this year. Sure, it could be the same old dry recitation of your family ...
FSU poetry professor James Kimbrell headlined The Jerome Stern Reading Series at The Bark, sharing work from his latest collection of poems.
Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.
The third set of stories and poems covers 'blends'. These are letters which join together to make another sound, for example, br ot, gl as, ia sg. Lists of the words in each set are given below. In ...