The new housing project, looming over the neighorhood, carries the name Poet Hill Residences. The project, nearing completion ...

Joanne Diaz, a professor of English literature at Illinois Wesleyan University, organized a 10-hour marathon reading of John ...

Born on January 25, 1824, in Sagardari, Jessore, Michael Madhusudan Dutt's life was marked with bold decisions and an ...

Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research lab, ...

In the description of her superb 1994 memoir Faithfull, she was bedevilled by “grotesque contracts, lying, cheating crafty legalisms, mad and bungling managers and barbaric schedules”. Relief of a ...

Audubon’s Birds of America Produced by National Museums Scotland—unfortunately, all remaining Birding on the Bay experiences ...

For years, only the Shakespeares and Dickenses of the world have been the mainstays in our English classrooms, with no room for the Rokeyas — voices that resonate with our culture and identity. It’s t ...

Sharif Afifi is the sole performer on the sparsest of sets as he offers the story of the Creation of everything… condensed.

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, ...

Fleury shut out the Canadiens in his final game in his home province of Quebec, earning a standing ovation lasting over two ...

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...