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Tag: Poetry and Poets

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Following the Sounds of Arabic to Rediscover Paris

August 27, 2025August 28, 2025Julia Webster Ayuso and James HillComments Off on Following the Sounds of Arabic to Rediscover Paris

A language student’s guide to the French capital highlights the culinary, literary and musical influences that quietly shape everyday life.

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A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery

July 15, 2025STEPHEN CASTLEComments Off on A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery

The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error deepened the confusion around it.

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James Lloydovich Patterson, 91, Dies; Soviet Poet and Symbol of Racial Unity

June 23, 2025Miguel SalazarComments Off on James Lloydovich Patterson, 91, Dies; Soviet Poet and Symbol of Racial Unity

Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and international solidarity.

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Memory Palace

May 3, 2025May 3, 2025Melissa KirschComments Off on Memory Palace

Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you.

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At 13, Charlotte Brontë Already Knew How Good a Writer She Would Be

April 25, 2025April 25, 2025Lynsey ChutelComments Off on At 13, Charlotte Brontë Already Knew How Good a Writer She Would Be

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.

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Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered

March 4, 2025Amelia NierenbergComments Off on Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different.

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Maria Teresa Horta, the Last of Portugal’s ‘Three Marias,’ Dies at 87

February 11, 2025February 12, 2025ADAM NOSSITERComments Off on Maria Teresa Horta, the Last of Portugal’s ‘Three Marias,’ Dies at 87

The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their country’s dictatorship.

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Reading Aloud

January 11, 2025Melissa KirschComments Off on Reading Aloud

Reading alone is a deeply enjoyable activity. But being read to has its own irreplaceable allure.

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Writers Silenced by Stalin Get New Life Amid War in Ukraine

December 4, 2024CONSTANT MEHEUTComments Off on Writers Silenced by Stalin Get New Life Amid War in Ukraine

The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to preserve its cultural heritage.

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Breyten Breytenbach, Anti-Apartheid Writer in Exile, Dies at 85

November 26, 2024November 27, 2024Trip GabrielComments Off on Breyten Breytenbach, Anti-Apartheid Writer in Exile, Dies at 85

He wrote poetry in Afrikaans and prose in English in his fight against South African racial oppression, an effort that landed him in jail for seven years.

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