In a photograph of Seamus Heaney and four of his siblings as children, reproduced in Dennis O’Driscoll’s indispensable book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008), the poet’s sisters, ...

Nassau’s government building was lit pink Tuesday to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month and celebrate Hewlett House’s 25th anniversary, a nonprofit that’s helped thousands of breast cancer ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Open Letter to My Ancestors” by Mary Ruefle, and his own poem “The Game.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern,” by ...

Bigg Boss 19's latest Weekend Ka Vaar episode triggered massive online backlash, with viewers and actress Kamya Panjabi slamming host Salman Khan and the makers. They were accused of bias towards ...

Novels by Karen Russell and Bryan Washington are among those vying for the award in fiction, while books about Gaza, foster care and women in Russia are up for the nonfiction prize. By Elizabeth A.

There are lots of different types of poetry, but they often contain similar ingredients. The main ingredient in a poem is words. Poems can be about anything: they can tell a story or they can be a ...

Some people text, some e-mail, but there's almost nothing better than getting an actual letter in the mail, especially if it's a letter poem. "A letter poem is when you're addressing someone else," ...

Literal language is when we say what we mean. Like “The news van is parked outside,” or “Meeting new people makes me nervous.” Figurative language can be anything that doesn't mean what it says ...

Celebrated poet Nikki Giovanni published more than 30 books during her lifetime, and nearly a year after her death comes her final collection. “The New Book,” out now, serves as both an elegy and a ...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 17 (ANI): There's great news for the fans of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. As King Khan is all set to turn 60 on November 2, PVR Inox Limited has planned a ...

Best of the best Who takes the award for the top physics Nobel of the 21st century? (Courtesy: Nobel Foundation) With the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be unveiled on Tuesday 7 October, Physics ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...