T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

Logic and grammar are important. But for students to truly own the English language, they need to read and write poems. A few years ago, I was working for a science teacher professional development ...

Recent anthologies that stand out include one that’s a feat of sustained translation and another that features poetry on the Covid crisis from across the world As we celebrated 200 years of Indian ...

“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

Helen Vendler is one of the most respected commentators on English-language poetry in our time. Readers coming to this book hoping for wise, well-found instruction will not be disappointed; they will ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. I see finches blown by a gale from the roof of my house onto the road outside this window. They crouch there on ...

During the 17th and early 18th century, three very prominent Pashto poets honoured what today is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. They were, in chronological order, Khushal Khan Khattak, Rahman Baba ...