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Ms. Di Castri’s piece takes its inspiration from the writings of the poet Ilya Kaminsky, born in Odesa, and the composer’s beloved Ukrainian great-grandfather, an immigrant to Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Over there, film critic Pauline Kael; and there, poet and sitcom star Suzanne Somers; and look, there’s bar-band singer Hugh Cregg, who’ll eventually use the stage name Huey Lewis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Now ebullient, now maudlin, Herzen can be suddenly, embarrassingly intimate—as when describing the torment of jealousy that gripped him upon learning of his wife’s brief affair with a German romantic poet, Georg Herwegh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

In the ancient world, plagiarism was viewed quite negatively: The word “plagiarism” actually means “kidnapper” in Latin, and the Roman poet Horace described literary theft like a crow making itself beautiful with stolen feathers.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Pindar, the greatest lyric poet of Greece, began to write toward the end of the sixth century.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Hosts of spiritual-minded sorts called it home: Alan Watts popularized Zen Buddhism in the ’60s, alongside poets Gary Snyder and Kenneth Rexroth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Its author, Henry Power, a professor of English literature at the University of Exeter, takes his readers through a gallery of English-language poets who have wrestled, over more than four centuries, with Homer’s legacy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Gerd believes it's important to look both to the future and to a history before the Nazi era, when German-speaking lands were known as a place of "poets and thinkers."

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Ashbery was always cast as a member of the “New York School” of poets, a category whose very definition and constituents have long been debated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The materials for this story are taken from two poets, the Greek Aeschylus and the Roman Ovid, separated from each other by four hundred and fifty years and still more by their gifts and temperaments.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton