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Image by Oli Lynch from Pixabay As a teacher, the poet John Ashbery gave as a prompt Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo” ...

Izumi Shikibu, a poet at Empress Teishi's court. (Shown here in a c. 1765 Kusazōshi by Komatsuken) When my desire grows too fie...

Translations are an important part of the poetry world.  Even translating the deceptively-simple haiku is difficult and worthy of argument. ...

When the U.N. General Assembly listens to a speaker, how much is lost in the translations? "As you know, translation is really a ...

Ulysses and the Sirens by John William Waterhouse (1891) “I think that one poet is lending himself to the other poet, that the obli...