Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. In the east ... were the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. The poets became famous for the poems that they wrote about the horrors of ...

We return to traditional Irish folk music for our countdown to St. Patrick’s Day playlist this week with six-time Grammy ...

Odesa loves its opera, its theater and, perhaps most of all, its poets, who since Russia’s ... none of the city’s famous literary progeny wrote primarily in Ukrainian. The book that many ...

Ogden Nash, a renowned American poet, lived in Savannah ... published by The New Yorker and was well on his way to becoming famous. I was curious about Nash’s Savannah connection and wanted ...

But clues can be found in the figure of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet who, in the early 20th century, founded the Futurist movement and later contributed to the founding of fascism.

in 1857 -- Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in 1892 -- Actor/TV producer Sheldon Leonard in 1907 -- Actor Robert Young in 1907 -- Writer Richard North Patterson in 1947 (age 78) -- International ...

Junauda Petrus, Poet Laureate for the city of Minneapolis and author of the children’s book, “Can We Please Give the Police to the Grandmothers?”, poses for a portrait in the Kling Public ...

Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd, a distinguished professor, has been named Michigan's third poet laureate. Boyd is an award-winning author with 13 published books and a passion for promoting poetry.

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

If you grew up in Canada with friends outside of the country, there's an uncanny experience you've likely lived through: that of mentioning a famous song or musician, only to realize no one knows ...

Smaller, lighter, and more affordable than the flagship Empyrean II, the $2,000 Meze Audio Poet have planar magnetic fans rather excited. There is already a lot of buzz surrounding the new Grado ...

About that time, the 1950s, I lived on my barge in Sausalito with my then wife, another poet, Ann London. Again, Allen got me in trouble when he accused me of tossing the famous “Joan Anderson ...