From here, Wood fast-forwards four years. Her protagonist has turned her back on her job, marriage, and friends and made this convent her fixed abode. Her succession of sacrifices has proved damaging: ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient ... the brilliance of his poetic art would make his vernacular words endure—as indeed it did. Mr. Luzzi notes that an early reader ...

The Garden of the Sleeping Giant is located in the foothills of the Nausori Highlands. The highlight here is the garden's collection of vibrant orchids. Once part of a private collection owned by ...

Rather, the opera sets to music her words, taken from a poem she wrote later in life. Herrera, a Mexico City-born singer and songwriter, had given a Sor Juana book as a birthday gift to Prestini ...

The old red-brick structure that overlooks the Montague River is full of artifacts, but those who help to run it worry about the Garden of the Gulf Museum itself being lost to history. That's ...

We learn Goethe’s last words in the 19th. This, I feel sure, is the better time to receive them, in the poem’s own Frostian sequence. In other iterations, the poet-persona simply mentions ...

My concrete poem in the shape of a sleigh. What’s the most challenging part of the writing process for you? Finding rhyming words that make sense with the sentence. Extracurricular activities ...

A California man who died trying to put out the flames encroaching his property with a garden hose uttered tragic final words to his sister: 'Let me just sit here.' Out-of-control wildfires ...