The ASEAN Literary Festival is an annual cultural event that sees the participation of all ASEAN countries – it features an extensive and diverse programme for everyone who is interested in literature ...

"An environment of comfortable and tasteful furniture hinders my thinking and puts me in a passive state," Goethe told German ...

The poetry of Hafez led Goethe, the legendary German philosopher, to call him “Saint Hafiz” and a “Celestial Friend”. For Goethe, Persian poetic language reached its zenith in the verses of Hafez in ...

going back as far as Goethe, often applied apostrophes all over the place for the purposes of meter or enjambment. Instead, he argues, that the relaxing of rules is making German more "complicated ...

The English-speaking readers who followed his advice can probably be counted on one hand, so AN Wilson’s choice to write ...

What is the significance of rhythm for poetics? Literary studies research has not yet answered this question exhaustively. Professor Achim Geisenhanslüke wants to change this. He will work on the ...

Join translators Sarah Kafatou and Mark S. Burrows and singer-songwriter Deborah Langstaff for an exploration of the writings and life of the poet Hilde Domin (1909 - 2006). Hilde Domin fled Nazi ...

Pakistan has paid respect to Allama Muhammad Iqbal, famous for composing poems in Urdu and Farsi, and plays a key role in cementing cultural affinity between Pakistan and Iran.

Many languages indicate ownership of something by using the word "of." But English often uses an apostrophe and S, sometimes unnecessarily.

My boys are getting bored, and that’s not good for their appetite or their temper.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister on Wednesday, leaving the government teetering on the brink of collapse. In a televised address, Scholz said he had dismissed Finance ...

Dallas’ poet laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) This year, Dallas named Mag Gabbert ...