Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

The three-day literary festival features foreign and local authors and other cultural figures, discussing a myriad of topics.

At just 27 years old Jewel Rodgers is making her name known across the poetry world and beyond using her art to push ...

"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

The first part of this article published last week briefly outlined the history of Sri Lanka’s national anthem being sung in ...

How does one track a language evolving so fast? Efforts have involved JRR Tolkein, K-dramas, and a red post box that still ...

In the 12th century, even as Kannada poetry was shifting away from champu style towards new and exciting metres, a new group of poets, drawn from a different spiritual tradition, began to take centres ...

The Tamil scholar “Pundit” M. Nallathamby, a teacher at Zahira College, Colombo was entrusted this task and a neat, precise ...

After a slew of executive orders came down from the Trump administration over the last few weeks, in Massachusetts this week, Governor Maura Healey issued one of her own, creating the position of a ...

English PEN has announced the PEN Translates awards winners for 2025, including the first-ever PEN Translates award for a ...

Sri Lankan corporate leader and executive Deshamanya Kandiah “Ken” Balendra has passed away at the age of 84. Born in 1940, Balendra has held many corporate positions in Sri Lanka and the region. He ...