The poem by Primo Levi that begins my haggadah echoes the line in Exodus that tells us the Israelites fleeing Egypt were joined by an “erev rav” — a mixed ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

Kilmer published two books of poetry (including “My Edens After Burns”) and was nominated for a spoken word album Grammy in 2012 for “The Mark of Zorro.” He was also a visual artist and a lifelong ...

As a longtime poetry reader and poet myself, I’ve found that there’s no better way to welcome the season than with some of the most beloved Christmas poems. From delightful Christmas poems for ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Seventeen young poets were honored Monday for being selected as winners in the Johnson City Monday Club’s annual Youth Poetry Competition.

In Indonesia, there are various traditions before and after Ramadan, some of which we see in other Muslim countries.

George Pilsl took the third-place medal in entertainment. Briana Ezewudo and Thomas Armstrong both earned fifth-place medals in poetry and informative, respectively. “Our coaching staff and ...