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Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

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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 ...

In the labyrinth of Ethiopia’s political landscape, an age-old rhythm of resistance and centralization replays itself. Fano, the self-styled guardian of ...

Reading Time tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth-century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

In recent years, Mohamed has created short films and poems about her time at the camp. “Anytime that I want to draw from an experience, it’s always going to be in Ethiopia, because that was ...

About a 30-minute walk and a five-minute drive from central Grounds, the market at Ix Art Park is not too far from the ...

Every September 11—as the rains retreat and the earth drinks its final drops—the golden petals of the Meskel flower are ...