In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, poetry slam and drag king competitions are in town, it’s ...

In 250 years of Black poetry, the act of writing is itself a form of protest. It isn’t just representing the history of struggle, “it’s also enacting it and resisting it,” said poet Kevin ...

Born on July 11, 1936, in Brahmanbaria, Al Mahmud (full name - Mir Abdus Shukur Al Mahmud) played a pivotal role in reshaping ...

In 1909, two Londoners were commissioned to create a book that would become one of the world’s most bedazzling. Joobin Bekhrad reveals how it ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic.

Born on July 11, 1936 in Brahmanbaria, Mir Abdus Shukur Al Mahmud played a pivotal role in reshaping Bangla poetry in the ...

Jeremy Corbyn led Britain’s Labour Party from 2015 to 2019. Len McCluskey was, until 2022, the leader of Unite, Britain’s wealthiest and most influential trade union. Together, they took over ...

As my coverage of music history expanded, poetry per se was dropped for reasons of time, and the creative writing component was also discontinued. Term papers now focused on popular, jazz, or art ...

Beginning in the 16th century, Holden says, "engine" could have been applied to all sorts of "ingenious" machinery -- clocks, mills, pumps, and (later) the steam engine.

Ancient poetry unveils hidden history of critically endangered finless porpoises, scientists say By Marlowe Starling, CNN 6 minute read ...

As for modern pork-centric poems, you don't get more completist than William Matthews (1942-1997), whose Sooey Generis tries to shoehorn all of hog history into its seven stanzas.