German poet Durs Grünbein and British translator Karen Leeder have won the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize for the collection Psyche Running.. The $130,000 prize is the world's largest prize for a ...

Language, especially as it appears to the pre-verbal child, is a “torrent,” a “fast moving stream,” a “boiling stream,” a “fast-moving current of sound not yet congealed into meaning.” Words are “like ...

German rolls past rivals in madcap English cheese chase. Richard Connor with dpa. 05/26/2025 May 26, 2025. A Munich man has tasted victory for a second time in one of England's quirkiest ...

“What is poetry? Why, sir,” roared Dr. Johnson to his ever-attentive Boswell, “we all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is . . . It is much easier to say what it is not ...

TORONTO — As German writer Durs Grünbein accepted the Griffin Poetry Prize at a ceremony in Toronto on Wednesday night, he pointed to the Ukrainian flag ribbon pinned to his lapel and launched ...

In fact, their poetry is more like modern Urdu as well as American and English poets but with a distinctive color of Pakistani landscape, people, history, customs, traditions and culture.

JEN BERVIN presents Measuring the Sun. Fri., Nov. 3rd, Poetry Collection 3:30-5:30 pm. RSVP required (visit site) A first glimpse from work in progress by Jen Bervin and conservator Debora Mayer: ...

Friedrich Merz won the vote to become the next German chancellor on Tuesday after a second vote in parliament, hours after an unprecedented defeat in the first round of voting.

Three literary awards for works of poetry of literary merit and Jewish interest will be made by the Jewish Book Council of America, sponsored by the National Jewish Welfare Board, it was announced ...

Trending in Functional English & English Poetry. By Syed Afsar Sajid ‘Mastering Functional English for BS Programs’ by Dr. Muhammad Asif ‘Dreambox – Second Anthology of Proemistry’ by ...

The German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno famously said in 1949, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” Had he lived to see the horror of Oct. 7, would he have said the same about the ...