Parthenon Huxley, a beloved rock singer/songwriter, has died. He was 70. His wife, Helle Huxley, announced his death in a post to his Facebook page on Jan. 30 “I’m so sad to share the heartbreaking ...

X.J. Kennedy, a poet, author, translator and educator whose many awards include an Los Angeles Times Book Prize, has died at ...

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine borderlands.

Old Indian poems and folk songs are revealing a surprising truth about the land. Scientists found that descriptions of thorny trees and open grasslands in texts written as far back as the 1200s ...

Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.

On the facing page in huge letters this lapsed Hoosier saw THE HOOSIERS, REDEFINED beneath a photo of IU quarterback Fernando ...

A prophet from 120 years ago is believed to have predicted the end of the world, which could involve a fiery war with Russia.

When Iron Maiden’s sixth studio album Somewhere In Time was released in 1986, singer Bruce Dickinson had a funny way of ...

As Valentine’s Day 2026 is just around the corner, Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna’s story reminds us that love need not ...

Ursula K. Le Guin was a longtime Portland resident who influenced a generation of writers worldwide and whose name became synonymous with superlative speculative fiction. Reading the latest book from ...

Italian poet Dante Alighieris widely shared quote about neutrality during moral crises reflects the core message of his ...