Says he: “I am sure these small triumphs served to strengthen the muscles of my will for the long climb to poetic goals. . . .” Poet Rice’s story of his climb up Parnassus has as many alibis ...

Heaney’s letters, selected and edited by Christopher Reid, reveal not merely a Catholic poet but a Catholic man. Stiglitz thinks we need a more positive conception of liberty — one that ...

The poet’s fatal belief that he dealt with a myth is absent from the cycle itself. Rilke said of the volume: “It is a little book that was presented to me, quite above and beyond myself by a ...

NEAR AND FAR—Edmund Blunden— Harper ($2). The world is full of a number of things, but good poetry is not one of them. In this book of 33 poems, Edmund Blunden illustrates the further fact ...

This essay is also one of two in the book that touches on devastating personal ... To take the most prosaic of objects, examine them with a poet’s grace, and make observations that are both ...

National Book Foundation announced the 10 contenders for the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. The final five finalists will be announced on Oct. 1, and the winners will be ...

An award-winning writer and poet has spoken to FRANCE 24 about her motto "Do it Afraid", as she prepares to launch her latest book of poems. British Nigerian poet Theresa Lola first became known ...

Kentucky folk artist Minnie Adkins and poet Mike Norris have published five books together, the most recent of which is “Mommy Goose’s Appalachian Melodies.” Photo submitted “The kinship ...

In her latest book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu (Simon & Schuster), a collection of essays on Urdu poetry and the Indian polity, she expounds the role and significance of the ...

Enter Prompt Poet, the brainchild of Character.ai, a conversational LLM startup recently acquired by Google. Prompt Poet simplifies advanced prompt engineering by offering a user-friendly ...

Her new book, "I Brought the War with Me," marries her life as a war correspondent with poetry. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant discussed more with Hilsum for our arts and culture series ...

In some ways, he's an unlikely candidate for poet laureate given his working-class origins and preference for punk rock. Photo shows An illustration of falling books on a beige background with the ...