Mother Jones15h
Poet Aja Monet’s Cure for Loneliness
She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...
Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...
Top5 on MSN4d
The Most Romantic Poems of All Time and What They Mean
Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...
The Forward7d
In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses’ a Jewish poet’s bookstore rises back to life
In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...
The Bulwark7d
The Poetry of Bombs and Trenches and Mustard Gas
Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
19 Black Poets Whose Work Will Move and Inspire You
The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...
The Daily Telegraph14d
The best poetry books of 2025 so far
Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... She was one of the most famous writers in Denmark, but only became well-known to Anglophone readers when the English translation of her ...
MarketWatch18d
Influential activist short-seller firm Hindenburg Research says it is shutting down
Activist short-seller firm Hindenburg Research is calling it quits after an impactful eight-year run in which its reports took on high-profile investors like Carl Icahn and Gautam Adani and helped ...
The Financial Times28d
When poetry heralds a new presidential era
At their best, poets can shine on the big day, capturing dreams and longings The tradition of the inaugural poem has been lopsided in the US. Only four presidents, all of them Democrats ...
Islaamka28d
Famous Poets Graduate as Fighters for Al-Shabab in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Nageye Khalif and Abdiwahid Gama’did, both young and renowned poets from Somaliland ... long interview released by the group’s radio. He also recited a poem reflecting his ...
The New York Times29d
The Desperate Housewife Whose Face Launched a Thousand Ships
By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will ... gritty working-class truth-telling of contemporary poets like Diane Seuss and the antic daring of those ...