William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. Seamus Heaney’s ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of ...

William Christie receives funding from the Australian Research Council for research into an entirely unrelated topic. If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of ...

"I have a confession to make: I don't really understand poetry." So goes the opening line of poet Matthew Zapruder's forthcoming book "Why Poetry," which looks at why a lot of people feel alienated by ...

Where did punk rock come from? In addition to its musical precursors, a new book makes the case that it was spawned in part by the creative exchange of musicians with the New York School of poets, ...

This short video shows us three different American Sign Language poems – two of which are less than a minute long. They give us an idea of poetry that is entirely out of most mainstream experience, ...

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