In the poetry excerpt above (and in the full poem), the poet prays not for extra comforts but only for the bare necessities of his people ... move you, but it’s worth checking out the full ...
If that’s you today, then give these beautiful ... born writer Elena Ferrante has stayed resolutely out of public view. “I learnt this poem by heart as a young teenager, and it has stayed ...
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A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes wrote about Black life and culture, revealing through ...
Have you ever compared someone to a summer’s day ... more than Poe’s raven without even realising. Check out these famous lines from poems you may not realise you knew. This is something ...
It's OK if you find some poetry boring or uninspiring, poet Laura Haskins writes, but keep looking for what you'll like.
Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.
In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of ...
Reading a poem can be a little bit like that. As you read ... if I set out the poem differently? One star in the sky shines dimly As he walks the wide, blue street. Every window is shut.
SINGAPORE – You have seen the advertisements ... an opportunity to allow poetry to “enter the mainstream on a much larger ...
Are songwriting and writing poems different for you? So different. I think a lot of people would probably be ... It wasn’t because I wanted to put a book out, or I wanted to get a publishing ...