Editorial: This simple idea has travelled around the world, bringing hope and inspiration to millions ...

Whatsapp Between 1500 and 1900, Kashmiri literature evolved under Persian dominance, producing enduring lyric, Sufi, Bhakti, masnawi and marsiya traditions through poets who vernacularised elite ...

I was trying to get down to the root where consciousness springs up under pressure from conflict and pain and power.” ...

For centuries, the Iliad and Odyssey were more than literature to the Greeks: they were formative texts, the stories through which young minds learned what it meant to be human, to be heroic, to be ...

Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poem that ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

This is a First Edition. Book has a dark green cover with red and white writing. On the first page of the book is an inscription that reads, "For Lena Horne - / Loved your songs tonight - and since / ...

Consider Eurydice. For one of Hoffman’s reviewers, her use of ‘mythology illuminates the timelessness of female oppression.’ This reading reduces Euridice to the allegorical and therefore to the banal ...

Although mnemonic devices far predate the written word, both Cicero and Quintilian name Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BCE) as the first teacher of an art of memory. Simonides is perhaps best known for ...

Students at Hudson Middle School had the opportunity to participate in a poetry contest sponsored by J.C. Garner and Marjorie Delaine McClain. During McClain’s formative years, he attended Apple ...

Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. In the past few years, the city’s poets have showered us with an embarrassment of riches. To celebrate National ...

Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man. Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin Boston. Nor was he at home in academia. He dropped out of college ...