Ocean Vuong’s newest novel 'Emperor of Gladness' reminds us that human connection is the greatest universal truth.

The artist creates a dynamic conversation between the museum’s historic art and architecture and the fluidity of contemporary ...

One such figure is Tao Yuanming (365-427), a poet who renounced official life to spend his days in wine-accompanied seclusion ...

I remember the heat. A dry, suffocating torrent. The blazing, burning sun baking the tarmac. No clouds, no trees, just a furnace of hate. I feel the hate. I remember the heat. I remember the dust.

Ozymandias is an imposing ... Richard Siken’s work made me realize how short-form writing can truly pack a punch. His collection “Crush” was the first poetry collection I have read cover to cover — ...

This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Spoken word has become increasingly popular thanks to the rise of poetry slams, short-form video content, and audio-sharing platforms. Spoken word isn’t just an art form; it’s a means of ...

Ever! It's a perfect metaphor, and proof, of our uniqueness as human beings. Every story, every poem, is part of our human tapestry. If they are never created, there's a hole that cannot be repaired.

As the poem begins, a “traveller from an antique land” turns up as a mechanism for reporting the news from the desert. The “lone and level sands stretch far away” into a vanishing distance at the end.

The most famous use of the poem, however, comes in the form of a Breaking Bad episode of the same name. The third-to-last episode of Breaking Bad is titled “Ozymandias” and the moniker is more ...

In Eckes’s poem, two forms sit in direct confrontation. The unemployment form, with its insults and banalities, is an object of unhappy necessity. The poetic form, however, resists the other’s ...