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The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford offers for the first time a comprehensive study of Stanford's life and work, introducing to a broad readership poetry that remains both captivating to poets and, ...
The Hymn of Babylon had been lost for over 2,000 years until researchers used AI to piece it together from 30 clay fragments.
Detroit poet laureate jessica Care moore talks new children's book "Your Crown Shines," film tour, Juneteenth poetry event ...
Matt is an award-winning children’s author and poet who began writing poems when he was 9 years old. He says he loves writing for children about nature, families, and our connectedness.
There’s an old newsroom rule: if satire starts feeling like reportage, double-check the dateline. Today’s dateline reads Nagpur, May 20 ’25 — and yes, the news is real. Three people ...
The old poem of Monalisa Stephen speaking of life, death, being bodyshamed, her mother’s love and her mother’s death, touched many netizens.
She was 20 years old when she fucking wrote that poem, and like, just that one line: “Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.” That is just incredible.
By itself, a poem can’t fix injustice, prevent violence, or erase mistakes we’ve made. But it can “hold you and scold you at the same time,” Daughtry writes; it can “make you float . . . introduce you ...
An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in ...
At just 19, Madi James Stearman is taking the end of the year by storm: releasing a bestselling poetry book. There's Beauty in the Breakdown traverses time and space bringing readers along for a ...