The place where these elements intersect is in song, music, rhythm, and the voice, which present the most ephemeral features of poetry and yet are the source of its most lasting effects. The book is ...
A History of World War One Poetry examines popular and literary, ephemeral and enduring poems that the cataclysm of 1914-1918 inspired. Across Europe, poets wrestled with the same problem: how to ...
The Position of Spoons is more ephemeral but, as befits a slim collection of essays, poems and vignettes, also pretty sprightly. Essays dart in scale, tone and quality between Colette, Ann Quin and ...
Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...
As a young poet harbouring an old soul, Mahua Sen’s second solo book of poems, “Nostalgia Crafting a Home Within,” is lyrical, luscious and vivid, reminding one of a mosaic or the ever-shifting ...
All of that is the province of religion, philosophy, poetry, literature and art ... Political defeats are ephemeral; so are ...
Love letters may seem like a thing of the past, but they’re still a powerful way to show someone how much you care. Writing a ...
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. “It’s time to turn up the heat a little bit more. My boys ...
A new “Paths of Ink” exhibition celebrating the art of calligraphy will open in the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Schaefer International Gallery on Nov. 12, with works by eight Japanese and Korean ...
What I love about poetry is that you can perform it anywhere. There are performances spaces all around us. In the bedroom. In the playground. I ….was…. at…. the ...