The Beals Memorial Library announced area poet Maya Maria, of Lowell, has been selected as a finalist in the 2024 Beals Prize ...

In 2008, at the age of 21, Katherine Rundell aced perhaps the most fiendish test in all of British academia: the entrance ...

Nuruddin Farah gains insight into a human soul via an Icelandic folktale about a wild animal trying to escape death ...

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Cousineau-Mollen is an Innu poet based in Quebec. Her poetry collection Bréviaire du matricule 082 won the Indigenous Voices Award for French Poetry. Cousineau Mollen also served as an executive ...

"She handed me a poem stapled to a small pack of Kleenex tissues. It was so thoughtful. I tried my best to hold it together while my daughter was meeting her teacher and settling into her class." ...

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ William Blake captures the suffering and oppression on the streets of 18th-century London ...

Late last month, Hopewell Library in Hopewell, Va. posted a video on Facebook about a patron who checked out Leaves of Grass, a poetry collection by Walt Whitman, in 1974. According to the library ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

The cows and calves were tossed some hay. His brother’s horse was fed. The chicken coop gave up twelve eggs while he thumped ...

The Roman poet Catullus is one of the most popular and frequently studied ancient authors. His poems were written just over two thousand years ago during the chaotic but culturally vibrant final ...