Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

If you’re looking for hints and answers for Strands for Friday, July 11, 2025, read on—I’ll share some clues and tips, and finally the solution to the puzzle with the theme “It could be verse.” For an ...

In Mayyil, a village in Kannur district, a quiet revolution in reading is under way—with 35 public libraries serving as ...

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The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...

After four successful crime films and a comedy caper, Guru Dutt shifted focus to make some serious and seminal films, which are hailed as classics. The first in the series of the four classics was ...

"Elegy for a Glacier," a visual poem on climate change, is by Round Lake filmmaker Sarah Bachinger. "Field Cam," a covid-era short, is by Elizabeth Ennis of Roscoe, NY.

David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer.

Writing poems following my lymphoma diagnosis gave me hope and purpose as I endured chemo, helping me heal and share my ...

More broadly, the sermon speaks of humility in an unusual fashion, comparing powerful, plundering men to wolves and deceitful ...

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.