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In Rome, Researchers Discover the Oldest English Poem Hidden Inside a Long-Lost 8th-Century Latin Manuscript
50+ min ago (782+ words) A forgotten 8th-century Latin manuscript in Rome has revealed a hidden literary treasure that reaches back to the dawn of English writing. Two researchers from Trinity College Dublin have uncovered a long-lost manuscript containing the oldest known poem in the…...
Poet Cole Swensen launches "Veer" at City Lights, Book Passage | Bay Area | smdailyjournal. com
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (636+ words) In "Veer," her 20th poetry collection, Bay Area native Cole Swensen reimagines everyday life through unexpected and often playful shifts in perspective. She invites readers to reconsider the boundaries between humans and nature in poems that suggest that people, animals, plants…...
Wow! UConn English Professor Earns Guggenheim to Work on Next Book of Poetry
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (978+ words) May 18, 2026 | Kimberly Phillips V. Penelope Pelizzon is one of 223 individuals worldwide, and the only from UConn, named to the 101st class by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Early on, V. Penelope Pelizzon imagined herself as Lady Macbeth, bathed in stage lights as…...
US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze is taking on the art of translated poetry
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (157+ words) Arthur Sze took an non-traditional path to becoming the U. S. Poet Laureate. Born in 1950 to Chinese immigrants, his family wanted him to pursue a safe career path that would assure security and prosperity. But while studying at MIT, he felt the…...
Be Beautiful Today. Practically Imperfect in every way. | Poets
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (269+ words) Neither flawless, nor polished. Be the kind of beautiful that is a laugh that wasn't planned, a thought that wanders into brilliance, a memory that softens your shoulders, a scar that decided not to hide, but to glow. the way…...
Book Review: Poet Gregory Orr Looks Back Through the Static
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (282+ words) In this volume, Gregory Orr revisits a lifetime of poetic concerns with grace, though not always with urgency. We Interrupt This Broadcast'by Gregory Orr. WW. Norton and Company, 112 pages, $27. 99 As'Gregory Orr'settles into old age with his own mortality squarely in…...
Dead Ink Books snares folk-horror anthology, Beasts of England
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (70+ words) The Bookseller Dead Ink Books snares folk-horror anthology, Beasts of England Register to read for FREE. Serious about the book trade? Want full access? Subscribe from just "3. 65 a week and unlock full access to exclusive interviews, rights deals, industry data…...
Urdu poetry book released by Adbi Kunj
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Lost Medieval Book In Rome Reveals One Of English Literature's Earliest Poems
8+ hour, 5+ min ago (210+ words) Lost Medieval Manuscript In Rome Reveals One Of The Earliest English Poems Also Read: The Diamond Sutra: The 1, 158-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll That Holds the Title of World's Oldest Dated Printed Book That detail matters. Two earlier copies of the hymn…...
Researchers stunned by a forgotten medieval book in Rome hiding the oldest English poem
14+ hour, 9+ min ago (925+ words) A new copy of the first poem ever to be transcribed in Old English has been unearthed in a library in Rome. It is a story that spans over a millennium, a hymn composed by a cowherd, documented by a…...