These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

I’ma Dane writing this piece, make no mistake.Danish IS difficult to learn. Learning Danish through fiction is not just ...

I invite any Jewish or Israeli poet who has not delved into contemporary Palestinian poetry to step behind enemy lines to read these and other poets. Reading them means experiencing not only the ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War ...