Akala:It's the year 1817. In North Africa, preparations are under way to transport a very special cargo by boat. A gigantic, seven-tonne statue, a relic from ancient Egypt, is about to be transported ...

Percy Bysshe Shelly turned the despot Ozymandias into a memorable sonnet about tyranny and time. Inspired by the poem, sculptor Douglas Kornfeld created a monumental red figure named Ozymandias that ...

Poetry has dropped so far out of the cultural mainstream in the U.S. that even seeing a great poem mangled, manhandled or misunderstood almost makes us smile. Every time a high-school commencement ...

Last night wasn’t the first time Breaking Bad has used a ten-cent word for an episode title (see: last week’s mouthful, “To’hajiilee”) but, for those who didn’t pay attention during English Poetry 101 ...