In a dimly lit cellar, clients of Barcelona's "poetry brothel" watched provocatively dressed performers strut their stuff and ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The origins of the phrase date all the way back to 1400, when the Medieval poem “Roman de la rose” (“Romance of the Rose”) ...

This medicinal plant was so coveted, it was worth its weight in gold. But this ultimately brought its downfall.

Where I do disagree with Mr Hodgart, however, is in his choice to single out the apparent popularity of one writer, Carol Ann Duffy, among contemporary English departments. He is mistaken in his ...

Rights activists in Singapore and Malaysia will hold candlelight vigils Wednesday to protest capital punishment as ...

Of course, the hapless Gambon swishing about temperamentally in his hipster doofus robes is an easy target. However, we are wrong to hurl every ounce of blame at Gambon; the people who truly deserve ...

Laytown Tidy Towns – Volunteers meet every Saturday morning at the car park outside the Coast Tavern from 10 am. to spruce up ...

Every year, when the first new moon in the lunar calendar rises, millions of families across East and Southeast Asia gather ...

Stores are open, and the woman across the street leaves for work every morning at 6:10. No sign, no word or letter from the ...

History is filled with talented directors, many of whom are active today (directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, ...

Kathy Kohner Zuckerman was at home in the Pacific Palisades, her husband Marvin working on the computer in his office, when a ...