It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...

Julie Swarstad Johnson, an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has served as poet in residence at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. She is author of the collection ...

In the Ancient Greek epic poem "The Odyssey," Odysseus' men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens' ...

Patrycja Humienik’s debut poetry collection, “We Contain Landscapes,” explores chronic illness, climate change, borders and ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Continental capitals, more used to new operas than the U.S., had taken The Rake pretty much in stride since its Venetian premiere (TIME, Sept.24, 1951). But as the first modern work the Met had ...

This is a slender volume, deceptively simple at first read. But within lie slow-burners — poems that grow more prosperous with time and repeat readings, opening up a vast continent of early ...

He then asked Harlow to sit beside him and read her a poem that ended with ... but very timeless and simplistic at the same time.” The last surprise in the proposal was that Kuzma orchestrated ...

People across Japan were treated to a full moon during the mid-autumn festival on Sept. 21 for the first time in eight years. The moon that rises on Aug. 15 on the lunar calendar, equivalent to Sept.