Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

But as W. H. Auden famously says in his elegy for W. B. Yeats, “poetry makes nothing happen.” Now, Yeats’s own poetry is inextricably linked with a particular place (Ireland), and it’s risky to take a ...

Isabella Dail, head editor of The Prospect and staff writer for News, interviews Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon about his ...

we believe that writing a song presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities that make a great song just as worthy as a great poem, even as these two separate types of artistic statement ...

Poe’s “The City in the Sea” is a gothic imagination of a place ruled by Death, which he personifies in this poem, and that is perhaps something that makes the poem one of his stand-out works.

Van Morrison had proven he could do the whole ethereal tone poem type of song, but he wanted to make a play for the radio. He had settled down somewhat in his personal life, but he imagined a ...

Second, teachers need to make sure their students possess basic online search skills. Expert fact-checkers don’t rely on how something “looks.” Students, likewise, need to leave an ...

This message—a poem of Limón’s titled “In Praise of Mystery”—was engraved on the outside of the Europa Clipper spacecraft, announcing its intentions in Limón’s hypnotic stanzas ...

Q. Your poem is scheduled to be launched into space on NASA’s Europa Clipper (possibly by the time people read this). What’s it like to write under those high-pressure circumstances (considering you ...

What’s it like to write under those high-pressure circumstances (considering you can’t make changes once your poem flies off)? It was very hard to begin the poem and that’s partly because I ...

Severe weather can target any part of the globe, but each year the Atlantic hurricane season brings heavy rain, strong wind, storm surge and sometimes catastrophic devastation to locations from ...