How many Oxford-educated poets decide to make a political play in the former murder capital of America? Precisely one.
Gen Zers are tiring of Twitter and increasingly drawn to poetry.
What happens when a well-meaning guy with a gun threatens another well-meaning guy with a gun? .
They’ve made pretty salty contributions to English language and culture, starting with some well-known profanity.
The social platform is an ideal forum, but algorithms are commodifying Instapoetry.
It ran for just two years in the early 1920s, but The Brownies’ Book altered the landscape of Black children’s literature.
At 21, Mecca Verdell is at the forefront of Baltimore’s thriving slam poetry scene.
This is what happens when a Persian woman brings insight to an ancient poet’s words.
Doing something extraordinary using totally ordinary means is a magic we should all be lucky enough to master.
Only a few can tell the Epic of Manas, the spiritual tale of an ancient Kyrgyz warrior.
From the BBC and OZY comes a fresh perspective on the debate about America’s future as a nation and its relation to the world during the 2020 US election.
Who better to represent a country’s cultural history and legacy than its literary giants?.
This Prussian baroness wrote erotic poetry and mainlined morphine — until Nazis took exception to her decadence.