In Russia, no poet need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of ...
In the late nineteenth and early 20th century when Urdu poetry was at its zenith there was a heated debate among the reigning Urdu poets from the Lucknow school as against the poets of say Western ...
In Jan Donley’s class at Berklee, her students study literature that centers on loss. Loss can make us sad, but it can also help us heal, Donley writes. In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, ...