For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

In our reportage, journalists are duty-bound to be truthful, unbiased and uncompromised. That must be our guide as we go about informing our audiences, be it through the print media or electronic ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

This year, the IALA is welcoming its new class of mentees for their fifth annual Mentorship Program—which will run until ...

Choosing the right words was a gift that Everett Hoagland, the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, had and used to create a ...

Murphy came across a scholarly article about poetic portraiture and thought it would make for a great collaborative project, ...

The children's book : a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language by Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 Publication date c1881 Topics Children's literature ...

Teachers can have students create comics based on poems to better understand their themes and spark meaningful conversation.

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky ...

The English language has changed completely in the course of a thousand years, due to both historical events and language-internal processes. This course offers an introduction to the rich history of ...

The English language is full of words with origins in Greek mythology. How has the Greek language influenced English? Credit: jovike, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Imagine for a moment human history as a river, ...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 13 — Penang-born British actress Pik-Sen Lim, best known for her role in the sitcom Mind Your Language, has died on Monday at the age of 80. Lim gained international recognition and ...