In ancient Greece, Olympic victors were crowned with olive branches, while Homer referred to the antioxidant-rich juice as “liquid gold” in his epic poems ... near the Isthmus of Corinth ...

The voice and poetry of Afro-Gari-Lenca author and lesbo-feminist Melissa ... We offer these reworked sounds for the isthmus, for the people of the isthmus that have longed and adamantly created their ...

I remember the heat. A dry, suffocating torrent. The blazing, burning sun baking the tarmac. No clouds, no trees, just a furnace of hate. I feel the hate. I remember the heat. I remember the dust.

Poetry is sometimes closer to dramatic truth than history itself. Around 27 million Soviet citizens died in WWII, according to official estimates. Even though words can hardly wipe out the ...

The versatile, restless, maddeningly guileful artist Rashid Johnson—whose career-spanning survey exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” is now up at the Guggenheim, inhabiting almost the ...

Poetry Moment Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

Being a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize can jumpstart your literary career. Need proof? Here are books that were written by former CBC Poetry Prize winners and finalists that are being ...

The ships’ destination was the Darien region of Panama, where the Company of Scotland hoped to create a trading hub that would bridge the isthmus and unite the world’s great oceans ...

Instead, their closest genetic links appear to be with people from the Isthmus of Panama, who speak Chibchan languages — yet even this connection is faint and unclear. A lost lineage The ancient ...

"She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they both love poetry. They clicked. Burgess is an award-winning author and poetry teacher and ...

‘Dus rahay haiN Aftab Ahmad wohi ab/AasteeN kay saNp jo maaray nahi haiN’. Thus Aftab’s poetry amply reflects the zeitgeist of the turbulent decades that he was destined to live out as a ...