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Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek

Image via Wikimedia Commons It’s been a humanist truism for some time to say that Shakespeare speaks to every age, transcending his time and place through the sheer force of his un...

Autumn in Verse: How Eastern and Western Poets Found Inspiration in the Changing Season

From Li Bai’s moonlit Dongting Lake to Shelley’s wild west wind, poets across centuries and continents have looked to autumn for reflections on beauty, hardship, mortality, and ren...

Why is poetry booming? It’s the only language for times of violence and chaos | Charlotte Higgins

From the Odyssey to conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, we can see how poetry fills the gap when ordinary ways of writing or speaking aren’t enoughThe biggest sales of poetry since reco...

Of This Ancient Love

We remain tender before...

The author recommends poetry and post-apocalyptic works.

The author recommends poetry and post-apocalyptic works.

Named & Nameless by Susan McCaslin

The first is an excerpt from the Hymn to Inanna, an ancient praise song to the Sumerian goddess (more on her later). The second is from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching concerning the meanin...

The Guardian view on booming poetry sales: Homer, meet the Instapoets | Editorial

In an unexpected twist, a Hollywood epic has contributed to Britain’s best-ever half-year in poetry salesIn a short story called Career Move, published in the New Yorker in 1992, M...

Death By Poetry

The unbitten tongue...

Dwayne Betts on the Iliad

What happens when a poet who survived prison sits down with the world’s oldest war story–and reads it in three sleepless, wandering days? In this second episode of the EconTalk Boo...

Korean poetry

I’ve been asked to write a book on Korean poetry. Do you think I should? I do not know Korean poetry well, but I do know what I like, and I have had several impactful experiences t...

Hear what the Odyssey may have sounded like as a song

The Enchanted Mead Of Suttung: Odin’s Elixir For Gods, Valkyries And Men

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Odin is a god of war, death, poetry, and wisdom in Norse mythology. He often spoke in beautiful poems. But before he became the god of poetry, he...

The Odyssey: Why We're Still Inspired By A 2,700-Year-Old Poem

Yes, it’s a very old and impressive text. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the modern-day successs of The Odyssey – a 24-book epic poem attributed to the Ancient Greek poet Homer...

The Space Poetry Reading Society

Literature may often be associated with the printed page, but poetry transcends both medium and time. At its core, poetry is a song, brought to life through sound rather than text....

The most incredible poem of 2026, surely

An epic memoir told in four-line stanzas The post The most...

Met displays earliest known ‘Odyssey’ fragment

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has returned to public display a rare 2,300-year-old papyrus fragment containing verses from Homer’s “The Odyssey,” presenting what museu...

‘Wild Sunflower’

Three poems by one of China’s most influential contemporary lyric poets The post ‘Wild Sunflower’ appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

The Firmer Ground Of Poetry

Win, lose or grow up...

“Consorting the Muse in Her Upstairs Office” by Ralph Bowers

An unforgettable collection of poems born from love, loss, faith, and wonder. Written over four decades, these lyrical reflections transform grief into grace and memory into music,...

Immersed in verse

Lectionary Poetry – 11th Sunday After Pentecost (Year A)

This coming Sunday, August 2, is the 11th Sunday after Pentecost. Here, we’ve curated a broad selection of classic and […] The post Lectionary Poetry – 11th Sunday After Pentecost...

Call and Response: Poetry’s Secret Sources

Paul Mariani on prayer.

From Greece, a thirst for knowledge: Ireland and the Odyssey

Translation is everything in how an epic travels to modern eyes and Irish artists have always had a good Troy at it.

Ulysses’ Restraint by Homer and Ben Zoma but Not by Zionists

[…] The post Ulysses’ Restraint by Homer and Ben Zoma but Not by Zionists appeared first on Jewish Journal.