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 ...

Young people are learning life skills like public speaking and memorization through a national poetry competition. Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd speaks with this year’s Poetry Out Loud winner ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

(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.

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

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 / ...

Cracking the Peculiar Poem in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 might be the hardest puzzle in the game. Though many of the treasure maps are tough to work out, at least they have lots of details to go on.