Slow Wreckage is Crooker’s tenth book of poems. She has always been a sharp noticer, especially of the natural world and the ...

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for ...

There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.”                            —Hamlet, 4.5The suddenness took you by surprise, not that you didn’t know the day would come when, forced to board an eastbound ...

Discover Ranjit Hoskote's curated selection of 150 couplets from Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir in 'The Homeland's an Ocean.' ...

Before the Bible tells us God commanded Abraham to go to a distant, unfamiliar land, which would be where there’s now a ...

Fat Pope, thin Pope. That is the adage. It means that you choose your next leader on the basis of how they differ from their ...

A DESPERATE REACHING: Last Wednesday, poet Noor Hindi led both a poetry workshop and reading with Bowdoin students, focusing ...

She says that there is a time in everyone's life, probably in teens when most people are first drawn to poetry-they ad ...

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SUMMIT Gratefulness for veterans may be at an all-time high, past military members said during the annual Veterans Day ...

The Canadian psychologist’s new book is a reading of the Old Testament and a paean to sacrifice. It’s riddling and dense, but ...