WESTPORT Library is hosting a month-long exhibition of poems by the children of Gaza, beginning with a launch on Saturday, February 15, at noon.

Robert E. Oswald, 82, of Allentown, passed away Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Twp. He was the husband of Karin E. (Marquardt) Oswald, with whom he shared nearly ...

Massachusetts is a state known for supporting the arts and some wonder why the state remained among the very last to establish the poet laureate role. Among them, poet Alice Kociemba, who lives in ...

Robert Nye has been much praised, even adulated, for his novels. I can also recommend his poems: ‘a heron stands/like a sickle dipped in feathers’. This luckily occurs twice in the collection – it’s ...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...

Gurajada Appa Rao (1862–1915) was a prominent Indian playwright, poet, and social reformer, best known for his contributions to Telugu literature. Born in Rayavaram village in the ...

Calling the next five years as an “unique opportunity” to realise ‘sabka vikas’ (development for all), she said, “The great Telugu poet and playwright Gurajada Apparao has said ‘A ...

Ireland has lost one of its leading literary figures following the death of the multiple award-winning poet, Michael Longley. The last survivor of the Belfast triumvirate of poets which also ...

The funeral of acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley has taken place in Belfast. Mr Longley died in hospital at the age of 85 on 22 January. The poet is survived by his wife Edna and children ...

Faithfull’s final musical releases were works that incorporated Romantic poetry in different ways. She Walks in Beauty (2021) is a spoken-word album of canonical Romantic poetry by the likes of ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

In 1976, she was cast as Alice Hyatt in "Alice," based on Ellen Burstyn’s Oscar-winning "Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore" about a widowed single mom who has a young son and works at a roadside ...