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World Poetry Day: Ancient Greece’s Classics, From Homer to Sappho’s Poems
As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...
At 95, He’s the World’s Oldest Speedskater. He’s Gunning for 100.
Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a ...
I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them
The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...
These are Scotland's 10 greatest poets - and none of them are dead
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 ...
Children of the Atom: On creating perspectives over grief
The event, Inheriting Shadows: Children of the Atom, was organised by Non-Aligned Poets Collective (NPC), a poets community ...
Why I’m Replacing Doomscrolling With Poetry
These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.
Greek Reporter3d
Nobel Laureate Odysseas Elytis Depicted Greek Struggle for Freedom
Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is regarded as one of Greece’s major poets and an eminent exponent of romantic ...
The Last Great Yiddish Novel
The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...
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How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? Reading each other’s poetry is a good start
Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ... Opening one’s heart to the other’s grief, listening ...