The Holocaust poets who can help us to understand genocides past and present
It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust ...
I Swear This Poem Didn’t Make Me Cry
George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.
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“We are gradually harvesting for good the energy of the whirlpool…”
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” is a line from the unfinished essay A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley. A claim, hard to stand up these days when too much poetry has ...
At the Cloisters, Sor Juana’s Words Ring Out in Song
The opera “Primero Sueño” translates Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poem about the soul’s journey into a musical promenade ...
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The Conversion of Death and the Lifegiving Power of Beauty
Death Comes for the War Poets’ looks at the life and legacy of poet Siegfried Sassoon — yet its true focus lies in the ...
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International environmental days in the context of the global calendar overload
The month of February is loaded with events of global prominence and significance. February 1, World Interfaith Harmony Week ...