“Kambar’s Ramayanam, a transcreation of the epic in Tamil, surpassed many original and translated versions and set a high standard for Tamil narrative poetry. Other works such as The ...

A standout of the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, 'A Poet' manages to successfully mesh together different thematic tones. Set in Medellín, the film follows Oscar Restrepo (Ubeimar Rios), a ...

Let us know! Evan Wang, a graduating senior at Upper Merion Area High School, has been named this year’s national youth poet laureate. He is the first male youth poet laureate in the program’s ...

He survived electroshock treatments and the threat of lobotomy to become one of Ireland’s most popular poets. The Irish Times called him a “literary phenomenon.” By Michael S. Rosenwald Paul ...

By Ash Wu Alice Notley, a prizewinning poet who exulted in disobeying literary traditions in creating dreamlike worlds that drew from myth, motherhood and the voices of the dead, died on May 19 in ...

At her inauguration as the city's poet laureate, Genny Lim recites from her poem, "I am American." "I am American. We live, love, work, sleep and breathe In this Babylon of 48 hills..." she begins.

Continuing a decades-old funeral tradition in Ringsend, the remains of poet Paul Durcan were carried across the river Dodder by locals and family members on the way to his requiem Mass at St ...

Drummond Hadley said he wasn’t a cowboy poet — he was a poet who was also a cowboy. Hadley, 77 and a longtime Southern Arizonan, died Nov. 26 at his mother’s family’s home in Cooperstown ...

Paul Durcan, one of Ireland’s most prominent and most popular contemporary poets has died aged 80. The author of more than 20 collections of poetry, Durcan was renowned for his highly engaging ...

Alice Notley, a much-laureled American poet who found inspiration for her challenging, probing works in sources as disparate as the experience of early motherhood and the evanescence of dreams ...

Poet Joy Harjo is playing unreleased tracks from her upcoming album, which is being co-produced by Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding, over the phone. Harjo, an enrolled member of the Mvskoke Nation ...

But then I was bought Horses by Patti Smith in my early teens and that changed everything… music and poetry.” Smith makes more sense as an influence than Dolly Parton for this rising star ...