Poetry isn't a medium typically associated with towering beasts. Lyric poems tend to be short, tender and concerned with ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

The mere mention of Grendel the classic monster from the Old English, Anglo-Saxon era epic poem, Beowulf is enough to unlock ...

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

How a stay in Warsaw and a father’s funeral became the source of a poem the famous Russian poet wrote for his entire life, in ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

Door County poets laureate Ethel Mortenson Davis and Thomas Davis will read their poetry for the Dickinson Poetry Series on ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

Helena Wilson stars on Broadway with Laura Donnelly, Leanne Best and Ophelia Lovibond in Jez Butterworth’s new hit play, the ...

With a starry cast including Jeff Bridges, Bryan Cranston and Dave Bautista, writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski is counting ...

Continuing an annual tradition, Colgate University’s English and creative writing department and medieval and renaissance studies program hosted its eighth Milton-a-thon Sunday, Nov. 3. Beginning at ...

The poet who was inspired to create masterpieces like the unparalleled *Axion Esti*, drawing on his experiences in Albania in ...