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F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...
"Van de Ven's clearance off the line was poetry in motion, better than a goal. There was a side of Ange Postecoglou and his ...
A Phillips Collection show places the work of Washington, D.C., poet Essex Hemphill alongside artwork his life and writing ...
The Aberystwyth Poetry Festival is back from 6-8 June, showcasing renowned and rising poets. This year's theme is 'Home and ...
Evan Wang, a senior at Upper Merion High School, wants to see young people engage with poetry off the page and in everyday ...
Ian McMillan's guests are the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison, as well as Indian dancer and poet Tishani Doshi, and the musician Scanner.
If the composition and dissemination of verse is as volatile as anything in the cosmos, the reading of it can also be as ...
Basharat Shameem It was in 1947 itself that Faiz Ahmad Faiz sensitized us about the coming dystopia that Pakistan was to be ...
The poet Paul Durcan died last week. I almost met him. This was at the beginning of the 1970s. ​I was a student at University ...
On Friday and through the Memorial Day weekend, you may see people handing out and wearing red flowers. Here's why.