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February's writer-curator on Something I Heard, Diane Raptosh, shares one of her own poems, an untitled American sonnet.

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Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

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Coil's first album proper is an alchemist's mix of synth pop, industrial, avant garde, rage, humour and transgression ...

Perry won the National Book Award in 2022 for her nonfiction book “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.” Her latest explores the connections ...

Get some wedding inspiration from the Bard, with SoGlos rounding up some of Shakespeare's most romantic readings. Boasting approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two narrative poems and a host of other ...

In 2025, registrations will open on Monday 3 March, 2025. The Challenge encourages children and students to read a set number of books over the year and record their efforts online. Since the ...