In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of poetic composition in plays, hymns, and fables, conferring on him the title ...

Witchcraft means different things to different people: It can be a form of self-care, a meditative practice or a means to self-expression. With the pandemic rise of mysticism, it’s no surprise that ...

For decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has endured almost continuous wars. By some estimates, they have become the deadliest since World War II, with many millions of people killed.

Elvis Costello once said, “You have 20 years to write your first album, and about six months to write your second.” Writer and director Sterlin Harjo’s “Reservation Dogs” aired its final episode ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

Poet Tim Staley is baffling accountants worldwide. That’s because Staley runs a micropress to publish poetry called Grandma Moses Press. He told the Bulletin that he doesn’t do it for money, since it ...

Dive into the passionate world of Pro non scripto. A senior lawyer at South African firm Werksmans with a reputation for toughness has been secretly publishing ardent love poetry on Instagram, ...

Plato argued that poets shouldn’t have a place in his ideal society. Credit: Wikipedia Commons, CC BY-SA. 4.0. How did a civilization that ate, slept, and voted to the rhythm of music end up banning ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On “Sound Machine,” a track from the new album “Aloud” from poet Raymond Antrobus and percussionist Evelyn Glennie ...

An evocative new exhibition on Skiathos explores the life and work of Dimitris Pikionis, the modernist architect whose sensitive designs for the Acropolis landscape turned walking into a contemplative ...

Internationally renowned poet Li-Young Lee will visit East Tennessee State University on Sept. 24 as part of the university's Bert C. Bach Written Word Initiative, according to an ETSU news release.

Though students often encounter William Blake in English classes, where they spend semesters poring over his Romantic poetry, his work extended beyond verse. With the help of his wife, Blake wrote, ...