May is merry, full of hope, the promise of springtime,” our guest Samantha Silva said. “My son was born at the very end of April and I remember so clearly walking into the hospital and there were ...

“The Devil Went Down To Georgia” is the story of a young boy named Johnny, whom the devil challenges to a fiddle duet. If Johnny wins, he gets a golden fiddle. But if he loses, the devil gets his soul ...

Ethan Shantie The HOWL Podcast returns for season 5! Season 5 of the HOWL Podcast is coming next Wednesday, May 20th! This season, host Ethan Shantie will bring y ...

On school days, my mother would leave our apartment before seven to spend the day talking about literature with other ...

Kronos Quartet, Kim Stanley Robinson, Merrill Garbus, Brontez Purnell, Andy Cabic, morę mark 100 years of poet-iconoclast.

The late curator's 1999 voyage with nine African poets inspired a moving procession led by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, ...

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder A lost copy of a poem composed in the seventh century by a Northumbrian cattle herder – the ...

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Contemporary wars turn up in unexpected places. In An Arbitrary Light Bulb, a book of verse by Ian Duhig, published in 2024, Gaza finds three mentions in a single poem called “Cecilia Vicuna’s Word ...

April is National Poetry Month and the Keys Citizen has featured poetry-related stories and content all month. For our final initiative, we asked community residents and leaders to name a poem, poet ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – They dusted off their jerseys, wrapped themselves in dog bones and howled till they were hoarse. They came to cheer and hope and dream. And urge the Browns to pick an Ohio State ...

After a forced confession and a death sentence, a Kurdish poet spent 30 years in jail, where he discovered his voice. His literary champion, to everyone’s surprise, became his life partner. The poet ...