Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.

A visionary writer, Blake begins by addressing living being within the natural world in such works as “Ah, Sunflower” or “The Tyger” — before taking each of those poems in unexpected ...

Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

Long before humans walked the Earth, huge prehistoric animals roamed the planet until evolution eventually led to the emergence of new species. Arthropleura, the largest arthropod of the ...

POET IN THE NEW WORLD: Poems, 1946-1953, by Czeslaw Milosz; edited by Robert Hass and David Frick When the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz won the Nobel Prize, in 1980, he had lived in the West for ...

Recounting the tale of the Spanish conquest, Aztec Rhapsodies tells of heroism, triumph and tragedy in epic verse.

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