Cummings served as an ambulance driver in World War I and published his first book of poetry a few years after. Best known ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include an extraordinary posthumous collection from Gboyega Odubanjo and JH Prynne’s ...

Journal of American Studies, Vol. 52, Issue. 1, p. 137. As a study of lyric poetry, in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant ...

That anyone would even attempt to sit down and translate a significant chunk of all Greek or Latin lyric poetry, and cram both the Greek and Latin poems into one volume is, let’s face it, a little ...

Niall Carroll plays music from the heart of the classical repertoire with Sounds on Screen, a piece from either the big or ...

Instead, he offers something else we also need: poems that won’t let us look away. Take ships, which make compelling lyric symbols. Think Whitman (“worn and old/… torn by many a fight …/I only saw, at ...

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is emerging from a four-year metamorphosis. Eighty-two copies of ...

TEHRAN-The House of Humanities Thinkers in Tehran will host a commemoration ceremony for the great Persian Poet of the 17th ...

Malayalam poet Anvar Ali talks to Assamese poet Jiban Narah on the political strains in his poetry and why ethnic languages ...

Weaving together the Genesis myth, Yoruba culture, and contemporary Black British culture, a young poet explores the haunting ...

It is an ocean of gorgeous lyric poems, delicate songs and tidal litanies. Poems will often shift language mid-verse. It is peppered with beautiful haiku that nod to the marginal poems of Irish ...

Charli XCX’s Brat can be seen as part of a multimedia tradition of women’s writing that is honest and no longer afraid of ...