Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

There is a well-known story about Faiz being pulled out of a madrasah (Islamic school) because the children, who came from very poor backgrounds, ridiculed him. He arrived in neat clothes, in a ...

The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s immersion into a poem written during happier times ...

Let us pray that Padel is prescient – and ... a nostalgic sense of loss: This shape poem, “Snake Wrangling in the Wild”, one of six calligrams, slithers across two pages, realistically ...

Homer and Odysseus live in a world where there is no one morality common to all people. Odysseus is never condemned for being ...

She did not let formal structure limit what she felt and wanted to convey to others.” A French student at Sato’s institute has also translated poems from Wright’s books into French ...

In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

Ahead of the resumption of the inquiry today, Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was one of those killed in the bombing, tells the BBC it’s not the right time to discuss whether the Irish government ...

Brian McCrory, who was killed while leaving camera film to be developed, was described as a "gentle giant" and much-loved father Oran had been in Omagh on a student trip, part of an exchange with ...