During the time he was caring for Bríd and writing poems about love, loss and daily life, O’Siadhail had been steadily working on a longer, more ambitious project—a project to which he would ...

New translations of the “Aeneid,” “Beowulf” and other ancient stories challenge some of our modern-day ideas. By Talya Zax The “Aeneid,” Virgil’s epic about the founding of Rome by ...

Inspirational poems that’ll raise your spirits. Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry.

The singer talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about Harvey's album I Inside the Old Year Dying, a ragged, highly crafted adaptation of her epic poem Orlam. It's a work that runs on the rhythm of ...

If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, out in September from BOA, ought to be it.This landmark book collects all the published poems of this major poet ...

Poems about life for nearly every situation. P oetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state ...

Brecht’s Muses seem never to have shunned him: he penned roughly 2000 poems, in a panoply of registers, in manifold identities and personae, on all aspects of human apprehension.

The king-hero Gilgamesh battling the ‘Bull of Heaven’. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY. The epic also provides the reader with a useful case study in what not to do if one is in the exceptional ...

Instead, he was born in a region ruled by Russia and, despite being considered a Polish nationalist, is believed to have actually expressed regional sentiments in his powerful poems like Pan Tadeusz.