The African Poetry Renaissance marks a resurgence and global recognition for poets from the continent. This period has seen a ...

The gift of verse may carry extra cachet this Valentine’s Day, on the heels of Taylor Swift’s announcement that her next album is poetry-themed. But in carrying out my research on Renaissance ...

Hughes' poetry is not just beautiful; it's a powerful exploration of the African diaspora's cultural legacy and its shaping ...

This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems. It begins with an ...

A new exhibition opens at the Galleria Borghese in Rome today entitled Poetry and Painting in the 17th Century. Giovan ...

This literary phenomenon was ‘The Executed Renaissance’ by Iurii Lavrinenko and Jerzy Giedroyc and in this article we remember the Ukrainian writers whose work was salvaged by the anthology and whom ...

including poetry, drama, visual arts, pornography, and medicine. Contrary to the silence ascribed to lesbianism in the Renaissance, Traub argues that the early modern period witnessed an unprecedented ...

Mark Gustafson, Minneapolis-based biographer of poet, translator and men’s movement founder Robert Bly, launches “Sowing ...