3rd-century slab features verses from "The Odyssey"

Posted on 07/10/2018 at 06:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

View post titled 3rd-century slab features verses from "The Odyssey"

The Guardian is all about the classics today — but this latest article is about something far older than Winnie th...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Classic literature, Poetry

Remembering the late Donald Hall

Posted on 07/02/2018 at 06:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

View post titled Remembering the late Donald Hall

NPR has reshared a 2012 interview with poet laureate Donald Hall, who died June 23. Hall’s work also included dram...

Tagged As: NPR, Obituary, Poetry

Five poems about soccer

Posted on 06/28/2018 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Soccer or American football

World Cup fever has struck even the literary world. Interesting Literature shared five classic poems about soccer (or fo...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Interesting Literature, Poetry

Donald Hall, poet laureate, passes away

Posted on 06/25/2018 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

View post titled Donald Hall, poet laureate, passes away

The daughter of Donald Hall confirms that the two-time poet laureate passed away Saturday. Hall, who was eighty-nine, ha...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Obituary, Poetry, The Guardian

Our new favorite hashtag

Posted on 06/22/2018 at 11:19 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

#makepoetryboring hashtag

Need something to amuse you quickly while the boss isn't looking? Search #makepoetryboring on Twitter! Some of our f...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Poetry

Poems to welcome the summer solstice

Posted on 06/21/2018 at 03:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

View post titled Poems to welcome the summer solstice

Interesting Literature has rounded up ten essential poems to enjoy with a cool beverage and a lounge chair, to open summ...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Free reads, Poetry

Magazine keeps Junot Diaz on; editors resign in protest

Posted on 06/07/2018 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

View post titled Magazine keeps Junot Diaz on; editors resign in protest

Three editors at The Boston Review will resign over the magazine’s continued association with Junot Diaz, accordin...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Poetry, Scandal

Lawrence Ferlinghetti is publishing a novel

Posted on 06/07/2018 at 09:02 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Beat generation poet

Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the last surviving members of the Beat generation, hasn’t put his pen down. The...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: New release, Poetry

Donations sought to publish Ursula K. Le Guin poems

Posted on 06/04/2018 at 01:54 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin also wrote poems and published several poetry collections.

A publishing house is seeking fans’ help in unveiling Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poetry collection. Le Guin h...

Tagged As: Fantasy, Poetry

Apple orders Emily Dickinson comedy series

Posted on 05/31/2018 at 02:41 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

No joke: Apple has ordered a comedic series about poet Emily Dickinson. Variety reports that Hailee Steinfeld will star...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Poetry, TV adaptation