The first of a brand-new year, the Lantern, or Yuanxiao Festival, is when the year gone becomes past and with that pure, ...

Ferrero compares it to the Chinese New Year, noting that while the latter is a time to stop work and visit family, the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrates unity within the context of ongoing duties and ...

What is lost is fidelity. What is gained is poetry. Jawid Mojaddedi, who is attempting a more accurate translation, includes footnotes in his translations. Footnotes! If anything could make a poem go ...

ABUJA—A violent clash between Shi’ite mourners and police in Abuja has left at least two police officers dead and three others unconscious, with several Shi’ite members also killed and injured.

One woman recently became the centre of attention for her striking looks and has been affectionately dubbed Singapore's Xi Shi by patrons of a coffee shop. Xi Shi was one of the four renowned ...

After she reached safety in a village away from the combat zone, she poured her emotions into a poem, typing out verses on her phone. Yaryna Chornohuz, a Ukrainian poet and combat medic ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...

Amanda Gorman, a poet and activist who in 2021 made history as the youngest poet ever to read at a presidential inauguration, debuted a new poem on the third night of the Democratic convention ...

Amanda Gorman, the country's first national youth poet laureate, will hit the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night to perform a brand-new poem in support of Vice ...