Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Georgia Popoff is a poet, editor and educator. She was named Onondaga County’s poet laureate in 2022. Last year, she received ...

Books & the Arts / From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Orlando Reade In September 2023, the ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

In a groundbreaking moment for Indian cinema, Dr. Kumar Vishwas teams up with music legends A.R. Rahman and Hans Zimmer for ...

Poetry Warriors Who Seek Immortal Fame and Find It, in Epic Poetry Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life.

Celebrated poet Dr. Kumar Vishwas, A.R. Rahman, and Hans Zimmer collaborate for the Ramayana film adaptation, weaving ...

From a new translation of Homer’s “Iliad” to the strange new world of AI verse, it’s been an epic year for the art of poetry. Only a god or an algorithm would presume to list the best ...

A Swedish Poet Comes Face to Face With the Epic Sámi writer Linnea Axelsson’s AEdnan uses the ancient form to critique Sweden’s historical mistreatment of its indigenous people.

BOOK REVIEW Jesmyn Ward, in ‘Let Us Descend,’ enters the underworld of slavery with spirits — and poets — as guides In her fourth novel, the author and two-time National Book Award winner ...

Why Is the Right Obsessed With Epic Poetry? From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war.