Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...

Emerging, everything begins again. Emily Dickinson gave the world a poem to note the same resiliency in us all when she wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers.” It is also the swelling bud ...

Once you’ve got these, you’ve learned a third of the poem, since this repeating couplet functions as a mini-chorus at the start of each stanza. That refrain tells the story in a nutshell.

The role of Spokane poet laureate asks laureates to, putting it plainly, bring poetry to one and all ... the more people who believe in telling their story, the better.” Writers have hosted ...

The NFL is planning to take over Christmas. In two of the past three years, the league has scheduled a tripleheader for Dec. 25 and starting with 2025, that's going to become a permanent part of ...

“A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” Rashid Johnson’s knotty retrospective that just opened at the Guggenheim, draws its title from a work by Amiri Baraka. Like that activist writer, the Chicago-born ...

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