Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

As the then-26-year-old mother-of-three tried to move on from the brutal relationship she'd fallen into after the breakdown of her marriage, she took refuge in partying to "fill an empty space ...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...

Despite an impressive six nominations at the 2025 Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift left empty-handed. The pop star, 35, didn’t win any trophies during the Sunday, February 2, ceremony at Crypto.com ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” on January 29, 1845, it catapulted both the work and its author to instant fame.

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