So Liu and colleagues searched databases of ancient Chinese poems for references to the porpoise, sometimes called the “river pig” or other nicknames. After ruling out references based on ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

In writer and poet Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay’s 2010 poem “Misfit,” the speaker of the poem notes that other people often ostracize him for his differences. But he doesn’t care ...

This is the exact paradigm Willie Nelson followed, as he first started practicing his craft when he wrote his first ever poem at six years old. It wasn’t a masterpiece by any means, but it got ...

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For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind Sixties hits “Poetry in Motion” and “It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’,” has died at the age of 86. Tillotson’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the news in a ...

The message, which is written in the form of poem or song lyrics, contains graphic language, racial slurs and endorsements of the Ku Klux Klan. Leicester Superintendent Brett Kustigian told the ...

according to the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino-University of the Philippines Diliman (SWF-UPD). This statement came in response to the Pamantasan ng Cabuyao’s recent announcement of its English-only ...

Cracking the Peculiar Poem in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 might be the hardest puzzle in the game. Though many of the treasure maps are tough to work out, at least they have lots of details to go on.

You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?