John Lennon is one of the 20th century's greatest songwriters, and his 10 best songs outside of The Beatles show he still had plenty left in the tank.

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It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

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The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “A Worldly Country,” by John Ashbery, and her own poem “Beagle or Something." The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “In the Waiting Room,” by ...

“I tilt the bottle/ wanting to trap/ the sparkling fireworks/ inside the glass marble of/ my 'ramune' soda.” Minami Towada, a junior high school first-year student, composed this tanka, beautifully ...

Because San Diego’s discovery by Western civilization was financed by Spain, America’s seventh largest city is currently ...

Poet Amanda Gorman wrote a poem for Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE officer this week. Gorman reads her poem and speaks on its meaning. After an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Macklin Good ...

Before Renee Good became the center of a tragic news story, she was a writer. She won an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2020, for her poem, On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs. The poem is wry and ...

Pattern formation is the developmental process by which cells acquire different identities, depending on their relative spatial positions within the embryo. Pattern formation ensures that tissues and ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and their ...