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Anna Leonard’s poems explore the tender spaces between grief, memory, and transformation. Rooted in the body and the natural ...
Years Later introduced a lot of people to a poem that carries an eerie feeling. The film's first teaser trailer consisted of this chant that escalated as the situation worsened.
That terrifying chant in the '28 Years Later' trailer and film is a 122-year-old Rudyard Kipling poem: director Danny Boyle ...
The Tipperary poet, patriot and bard, Darby Ryan, is to be remembered with a poetry contest in his memory in his native village. Author of the ballad, The Peeler and the Goat, also known as The Bansha ...
It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...
Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...
Jane (Veitzman) Muschenetz, MBA ’06, writes poetry that bridges the gap between science and art. Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying in high school English.
From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection ...
But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy. Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer!This illustration was produced for an 1893 edition of the 1823 poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas ...
You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?
Poet and activist Amanda Gorman recited an original poem on the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, in a follow-up to the historic recitation of her original “The ...