Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a ...

Sudan plunged into war in April 2023 when simmering tensions between the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary the Rapid ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

Strings announced his mom's death during his show in Lexington, Ky., on Friday, June 20 ...

‘90% of the Poems Here Are About Death’: Ukraine Grieves a Poet-Soldier Maksym Kryvtsov's verses connected people with the front lines. Last month, he was killed in battle.

Poem of the Day: ‘Night and Death’ Joseph Blanco White wrote some now mostly forgotten poetry, but this sonnet, orginally dedicated to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, should not be allowed to fade away.

To mark the December 10 birthday of Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), today we offer our readers an emblematic Dickinson poem: a poem about death. Reading Dickinson, we can readily feel that for every poem ...

Long after his death, Morrison’s words remain immortal. Here’s a look at just five of Morrison’s poems that eventually transitioned into Doors songs seven years after his death. 1. ‘Ghost ...