The problem with contemporary poetry is poets. The poems are lovely – dense, funny, sensuous, interesting. The poets are an unhappy people, riven by grievance, whose primary occupation seems to be the ...

Is it possible to translate poetry from one language into another without losing meaning? To paraphrase Robert Frost — not really. "Poetry is what gets lost in translation," the American poet is often ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“When we believe that in the universe there is reason/that nothing/for as long as we live/just happens of its own accord/there is a plan/it’s because you/oh OR/held our hand when were in search driven ...

Modern Urdu poem, or ‘jadeed nazm’, is a genre that is comparatively young. It was born in 1874. In comparison, Urdu ghazal is as old as Urdu literature itself and Ameer Khusrau (who died in the year ...

A 500-year-old handwritten fragment of a poem by one of Scotland’s greatest literary figures has been discovered. The scribbled lines of a work by Sir David Lyndsay, an influential pre-Reformation ...