The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...
Maggie Smith Has Had to ‘Unlearn’ Her Identity as a Poet
I’ve had to set that limiting belief aside,” she says, “in order to write other kinds of books without feeling like an ...
Decoding a medieval mystery manuscript
MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...
The powerful message Maria Shriver told herself on a hotel bathroom floor amid divorce
The TODAY contributor writes about the heartbreak of going through her public divorce from ex-husband Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
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22 Short Poems That’ll Help You Read More Poetry This Year
At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...
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Poet, writer and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby dies aged 82
The death of the poet, writer and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby at the age of 82 has been confirmed by his family. He died in a nursing home in Clontarf, Co Dublin. The popular author was a familiar ...
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Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...
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Restaurant Roundup: Turkey and the Wolf Icehouse, Germantown Mexican restaurant open
An East Nashville sandwich shop and a Germantown Mexican restaurant open. Nashville is a mecca for foodies, and the scene’s growth is nowhere close to over, with openings and new concepts ...
The Conversation25d
Australian poetry used to be popular. And it could be again
Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...
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Prime Minister Modi attends Jahan-e-Khusrau: How 13th century poet is a flag-bearer of pluralistic Sufi tradition
In his address to the 25th edition of Jahan-e-Khusrau at New Delhi’s Sunder Nursery on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the annual music festival that commemorates the Sufi poet-musician ...
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Poet and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby dies aged 82
Dublin poet and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby has died at the age of 82 in a nursing home in Clontarf in Dublin. Mr Ingoldsby, who was born in Malahide on August 25th, 1942, is survived by his ...
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Renowned Gujarati poet and essayist Anil Joshi passes away at 85
Renowned Gujarati poet and essayist Anil Joshi, known for his works such as Kadach and Statue, and for returning his 1990 Sahitya Akademi award to protest attacks on literary writers in 2015, passed ...