Tricky pronunciation can make English one of the hardest languages in the world for foreign speakers to learn. Why does "done" rhyme with "fun," for example, and why doesn't "done" rhyme with "gone"?

One hundred years ago this month, Chicago was not thought of as the planet’s pig renderer. And its shoulders, hunched or held back, square or rounded, big or small or somewhere in the broad middle, ...

Teacher and poet Edward Hirsch explores the ennobling powers of poetry in his compendium of masterful works from around the world, "100 Poems to Break Your Heart" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). We live ...

100 Poems by Seamus Heaney, published by Faber, priced £10.99 (Kindle edition £6.47). Available June 28 GIVEN the universal high esteem in which poet and Nobel prizewinner Seamus Heaney is held, the ...

Oxford University Press (OUP) organised a discussion around its new publication Defiance of the Rose – Selected Poems by Perveen Shakir translated from Urdu by Naima Rashid. Rendered into English with ...

This varied anthology began as a blog—the editors sent out a call to poets asking them to write original poems on an assigned day during the critical first 100 days of Obama's presidency, responding ...

"Print the best poetry written today, in whatever style, genre or approach." Those were the ambitious words written 100 years ago by Harriet Monroe when she founded Poetry, now the oldest monthly ...

The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, consisting of $100 and a silver medal, for the best poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a committee of the Department of English," will ...

We live in distracting times. Our superficial, materialistic, media-driven culture often seems uncomfortable with true depths of feeling. It's as if the culture as a whole has become increasingly ...