When he died in Barcelona at 50 in 2003, the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño was already a legend in the Spanish-speaking world -- the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since , and ...

Thanks to all of you who emailed me following my column on Dec. 10. I am pleased beyond measure that poetry touches so many people. I had more responses to that column than anything I have written for ...

In a new classics course, students from Penn and from Yale-NUS College in Singapore have the chance to study epic poetry together and visit each others' home countries. "Ancient Epic Poetry" is a ...

When I meet Nineb Lamassu at England's Cambridge University, where he's a researcher, he transports us to his Middle Eastern homeland by opening his computer and playing me a recording of a man ...