Soprano Lauren Snouffer, who plays the lead, talks about this colorful new production and the timeless themes that still ...

Eric Clapton's first real attempt at songwriting needed some lyrics. A poet came through with the words of "Tales Of Brave ...

So Liu and colleagues searched databases of ancient Chinese poems for references to the porpoise, sometimes called the “river pig” or other nicknames. After ruling out references based on ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

As of Tuesday, the new Illinois Poet Laureate is named Mark Turcotte and this is a portion of one of his poems, the beginning stanza of “Flies Buzzing.” “Mark Turcotte’s work reflects the ...

You might be surprised to learn that a figure from the distant 3rd century BC, a Greek scholar and poet named Callimachus ... sharp Epigrams were dense with allusions, designed for an educated reader ...

Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind Sixties hits “Poetry in Motion” and “It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’,” has died at the age of 86. Tillotson’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the news in a ...

(With this allusion, the poet artfully foreshadows the fact that ... like all educated Romans, knew Greek as well as Latin—is actually indulging in an elaborate and risqué bilingual pun here.

I appreciated her continued reference to Greek mythology, which entranced me into the world her words created. She carried on with the allusions in the following poem: Study of Two Figures (Midas / ...

There, most new poetry still came well marinaded in Latin and Greek allusion: in that sense Victorian poetic classicism died hard. Yet on the Western Front it died all the same. In two volumes (one a ...