Chinese poetry carved on the wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. Text from Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 These lines ...

A Little History of Poetry Author name by John Carey, Yale, $25 Amazon In his bestselling autobiography, The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books (2014), Carey invariably chose to illustrate ...

For about as long as there have been hot peppers and writing implements, people have been indulging in the twin pleasures of eating gut-wrenchingly spicy things and then going and telling everyone ...

When senior Lucy Chuang learned of the March 16 shootings in Atlanta, she opened her poetry journal. In the days that followed, she wrote several poems dedicated to the Asian women who were killed.

The back cover of Ko-Hua Chen’s “Decapitated Poetry,” translated into English by Wen-Chi Li and Colin Bramwell, reads: “‘Decapitated Poetry’ was the first explicitly queer book of poems published in ...

Thirty years ago, during my second year of teaching humanities at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (1985-86), I created an elective two-semester course called “Lyric” that began with ...

The poet Constantine Cavafy was a cosmopolitan by both birth and inclination. His parents were Constantinople Greeks of what was then known as “good family”; by the time their youngest son was born in ...

A poetry book blending Basingstoke's history, people and technological advancements has been published by a local history ...

To say that Vyacheslav Molotov had a fraught relationship with the world of literature would be putting it mildly. One of the more notorious servicemen of Stalin's government — he personally approved ...

Since 1926, February has marked the observance and celebration of black history in the United States — first with a week-long celebration scheduled to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln ...