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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Amidst the dreariness of winter quarter, we asked writers at The Daily how they make the most of the rainy weather.

It takes time to acclimate to the style of storytelling, but Lindsay Smiling's directorial debut is out to fight an ...

Housing the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, we are the National Poetry Library; free to join across the UK, and London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Founded by the Arts ...

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