Tanikawa diverged from haiku and other traditions, and explored the poetic, not only in the repetitive music of the spoken ...

He also translated Mother Goose, Maurice Sendak and Leo Lionni ... and began writing poetry in his teens, circulating with ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

Of the British examples, the standout for me is Northampton-born Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986), a composer, pianist and teacher.

Three little girls ran down a block, said Grandma was the best! They'd sing and play, read some and dance, then sit down for a rest. Their Dad and Mom encouraged them, they knew Grandma loved girls.

The lines which form a prelude to the published volume of her poems are the only ones that have come to light indicating even a ... so peculiar that it seemed as if the writer might have taken her ...

Prepare for an evening of powerful poetry and personal storytelling with California's current Poet Laureate Lee Herrick on ...

When Yannis Ritsos passed away on November 11, 1990, the world of poetry lost one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.

Probably no sonnet has ever meant so much to so many people as the one by Emma Lazarus that adorns the Statue of Liberty in ...

If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. A mother-child relationship is a special one for both obvious and mysterious reasons. She’s been there through everything (and we mean ...