She isn't merely meek and mild. For example, Jonathan Harvey provided us with the English translation of Rilke's poem on the Annunciation which follows. For English versions of all fifteen Marian ...

October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...

Rachel Doherty, Assistant Director for Programming and Special Projects Center for Louisiana Studies, stopped by First at ...

In the summer of 1876, rebel French poet Arthur Rimbaud arrived on the Indonesian island of Java, enlisting in the colonial ...

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a ...

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. A Sotheby's employee handles a copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the most important book in ... [+] English Literature. The book is estimated ...

This poem makes an allusion to the letter that Harry T. Burn received from his mother just before his vote tipped the Tennessee General Assembly in favor of ratifying the 19th Amendment. Susan Barber, ...

Centenary College’s Hurley School of Music and the French Department’s Oral Traditions class are collaborating to present ...

A five-page poem (in French) signed St. John Perse makes the first issue of Hemispheres* the first U.S.-French literary quarterly, a minor belletristic event. It also serves to remind Americans ...

Raja Hawathul sang a popular Malay tune and encouraged the audience to join in. She later invited children to gather around ...

Reflect on how it felt to perform a poem. This short film will be relevant for teaching English at primary school.