One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

It only occurred to me later ... a real person actually speaking the poem to another real person. The person doesn’t have to be you the poet — you can imagine it’s Aunt Sally telling your ...

Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet ...

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

World-renowned Spanish poet and University of Virginia professor Fernando Valverde has been named one of 2024's Distinguished ...

Did anyone else get the feeling that AWIAL -- despite being ostensibly based in the Mumbai of today -- is actually set in a Neverland of Solemnity?' asks Sreehari Nair.

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

I track down Doug at his home in Petawawa in eastern Ontario. All these years later, he can still recall, in detail, the ...

Sterling Morrison spent more than 20 years in Texas living in relative obscurity as one of the founding members of the Velvet ...