A woman was considered impure during her menstrual cycle and was expected to ... especially the contributions of educated and literate women. Through their writings—poems, psalters, and various ...

Her stories were originally passed from generation to generation as songs and poems, until they were compiled in a number ... and missionaries specifically characterized Freya as a sexually impure ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

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He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

Can painting alter the course of our politics? By John Banville Many a soul has perished at what the critic Lionel Trilling called the bloody crossroads where art and politics meet – Trilling spoke of ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

The Quranic perspective, as interpreted by scholars like Rahman, Esack, and Donner, challenges the notion of Islamic exclusivism by affirming the universality of divine guidance and the ...