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“In her demands, I hear seduction, the kind that plays out when you’re already in bed with someone, whispering ‘we can’t’ while you do.”

DUBAI: Saudi poet, translator and literary editor Ahmed Al-Ali has worn many hats over the course of his career, but the Dubai-based writer — set to speak at a panel at the upcoming Emirates Airline Festival of Literature — started out as a software engineer. “I wasn’t satisfied being a software engineer who has no time to read books except before sleeping. ‘There are people

The creation of the band Television is an immense fairytale. When Tom Miller and Richard Meyers met at the Sanford School in Delaware, they both ditched the place in favor of becoming poets in the Big Apple.

The 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center’s 84th season will continue with a Winter/Spring lineup featuring beloved playwrights and actors, critically-acclaimed novelists and poets. See details about the lineup and more.

The submissions reveal an incredibly varied aesthetic approach to honor the Kings at the Boston Common by five renowned artist teams who explore issues of race, colonialism and its legacy, and identity, among other relevant themes.

Michael Dirda THE WASHINGTON POST – In What Is Literature? Jean-Paul Sartre emphasised that authors shouldn’t think about posterity but rather write for their own time. This has always struck me as an obvious precept, even when poets and novelists can’t help but hope that somehow their best work might become, as Horace boasted of […]

Once, poetry was a popular art form. What happened?

On December 27th, 2022, Guy Madison East, Andrew East dad, died unexpectedly in his sleep. Guy was a devoted Christian, loving husband, father, and grandfather.

Robert Alexander’s celebration of the treasures of the Hawkesbury River made him a kind of nature poet.

Death to the Death of Poetry - Some days, when you read the newspaper, it seems clear that the United States is a country devoted to poetry. You can...