This week, readers write about making Hong Kong animal-friendly, the Japanese animation industry and preserving traditional ...

A spoken-word poet whose work explores themes of history and hope, Gibson sees his art as ‘a means of bringing people ...

Thirukkural translation project breaks new ground in Dravidian languages, enriching literary heritage and promoting cultural ...

Mery Smith's tumultuous journey to the title Spokane Poet Laureate included flunking out of college due to alcoholism and ...

Gary Busha and his press, Wolfsongs, have been around since the early 1970s. He graduated from UW-Eau Claire in 1978 with a ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained ...

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Dorcey began her political activism in the 1970s, having returned to Ireland after living in France and England. Having met other queer people abroad, Dorcey was struck by the repression that ...

Lake Literary Center opened this spring with a variety of on-site gatherings and off-site events appealing to local reading ...

But this is not a purely literary exercise. She adds, “I feel there has been a generous give-and-take between the poetry of the mystics ... such as the importance of the guru.” A prominent example, ...