The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program has announced the winner of the eighth annual Cantor Prize for Poetry, Alicia Rebecca Myers for her poem, “On the Anniversary of My ...

Serena Thomas, a seven-year-old Kisumu girl has penned an emotional poem in honour of former prime minister Raila Odinga ...

Tennyson was born in 1809, the middle child in a large family that today would undoubtedly be described as ‘dysfunctional’.

In terms of narrative logic, the story of Jacob wrestling with God is one of the oddest tales in the Bible. Metaphorically, ...

On the 12th of Rabi’ al-Awwal Sunni Muslims celebrate the Prophet’s birthday. In a festive atmosphere, some of them recite ...

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds Poetry Group. The Year 2005 The first 10 months of ...

That would be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s been more than a decade since the museum’s last big Egypt show, so ...

The best-selling author of The Shepherd’s Life grew up thinking the Lake Poets had nothing to say for working people. Then he moved to the city and had a revelation ...

Plenitude The housing crisis peeps through certain poems (“our young who cannot afford a home: there is no nest” Lustrous ...

Alice Roberts has a gift. Few can make stones live the way she does. An archaeologist by training, a storyteller by nature, she takes broken tiles and battered fragments and makes them shine. Roman ...