World Poetry Day is celebrated annually on 21st March, as declared by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...
Moreover, 51% indicated that reading or writing poetry had helped them deal with loneliness or isolation. For 50%, it had ...
Amaka Felly Obioji makes her poetic manifesto in these sublime lines in the 20th poem: ‘I think my heart is breaking,/ and poetry is the only ...
The fourth album from Michelle Zauner plays like an open session in the artist’s salon, forsaking her renowned juxtaposition between intimate and transcendental soundscapes and welcoming in a more ...
Memorizing a poem first thing in the morning became a way ... the Academy Award-winning director of “Parasite,” has turned his funny-sad excavations of life under capitalism into unlikely ...
whose later disappearance inspired intense sadness and longing that, in turn, seems to have inspired Rumi’s greatest works. If you’re looking for quick poetry for reflection, Rumi’s work is ...
What about a book of poetry that reads like a novel ... during the World War II to the waiting Enid, hints of an early Depression era infatuation, and research into how a devastating 1937 Flood ...
At Adam’s funeral, Eve remembers how frightened he was on leaving Paradise and catching flu. But in old age, he had confided ...
NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in ...
(In one poem, he figured his wife as “my sorrow.”) Elinor, for her part, sometimes resembled the wife in “Home Burial”: sad, taciturn, determined to keep her distance from her husband.