It’s a short poem—there are only three more lines after these—and Bidart doesn’t let the comic mood stand. The playfulness crumples (as does, in a sense, the dog itself, once he’s been “Held up to a ...

Mehr 8 in the Iranian calendar is considered a significant cultural event for Iranians to commemorate the prominent Iranian poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi who needs no introduction when it comes to ...

The beauties of a book by Joseph Donahue? Here’s a list. Mysterious events happen in many world-wide geographical zones, and you accept them for the pleasure of attending to them curiously.

Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), heir to both the Metaphysical and the Cavalier strands that constitute the early seventeenth century in English poetry, crosses more than one path with another chameleonic ...

Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has been designating April as National Poetry Month to celebrate “poets’ integral role in our culture” and to remind readers “that poetry matters,” according ...

In classical rhetoric, there's a form called litotes. It comes from the Greek, meaning smooth, plain or meager. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "a figure of speech in which an affirmative ...