The garden, as created by kafi poets, is a paradise. Here arrive the ‘sons of soil’ who were killed by oppressive rulers and ...

So many of her poems are about things that kids pay a lot of attention to, like bees and insects and snakes and death,” Pierce Bonifaz said. “So it was really easy for the students to have a ...

Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...

It’s possible to study more “conventional” and “archaic” kinds of poetry at Kenyon. I mean, I took a class on Chaucer my sophomore year, where I voraciously read rhyming epics about talking birds. I ...

The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.

By the 15th century, Arabic and later European historians interpreted Ibn al-Wardi’s story as a fact-based parable, with ...