A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

On 8 January 2026, I delivered a talk at an event at the University of Colombo marking the retirement of my longtime friend ...

Dylan Thomas copied other poets' work and published it under his own name as a schoolboy, according to an author and ...

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Thomas’s witty ballad “His Repertoire”, supposedly written by a 12-year-old Thomas in December 1926, is allegedly an “almost ...

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Responses to an essay by Roger Rosenblatt about keeping and tossing old books. Also: A.I. and human identity; new heights for ...

This collection of essays written over the span of a quarter century by literary critic Brooke Allen is elegant, erudite, and ...

Renee Nicole Good’s extraordinary award-winning poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” contains a line I keep coming back ...

The connection between place and writing shapes reasoning and can change how people think about climate issues.

Jefferson Community College is currently accepting submissions for the 2026 edition of the Black River Review, the deadline ...