Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

Deerchild, host of CBC’s Unreserved, is the playwright behind The Secret to Good Tea, playing this month at the Grand Theatre ...

The workmates loudly gossiping at a nearby desk may set your teeth grinding but rock star British poet David Whyte warns we ...

Charity Cruse Bereavement Support has received a £1,500 grant from Tesco as part of the Stronger Starts scheme, enabling them ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

The first book in Arabic about the life and poetry of the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, titled Ghalib: A’zam Shu’ara’il-Hind ...

The father of gastronomy is regarded as Archestratus, an ancient Greek poet and philosopher in the mid-4th century BCE ...

Are you serious about living the good life? It’s time to start thinking about what your best possible life looks like.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.