Any time you're facing big failure is a good time to revisit the 1888 poem "Casey at the Bat." It's the classic story of dashed optimism, of an entire city putting its hopes on the result of one ...

The Russian poet Nikolai Gumilyov was so desperate to marry his teenage sweetheart Anna Akhmatova that when she kept refusing him, he attempted suicide — three times. Eventually, after years of his ...

The Word that Causes Death’s Defeat: Poems of Memory by Anna Akhmatova, Translated by Nancy K. Anderson (Yale, 352 pp., $30) The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova stands at the pinnacle of the mountain ...

This week will long be woefully remembered by many Brazilian soccer fans as one of shame, with the five-time World Cup winner’s hopes of victory being dashed in a game against the Netherlands, which ...

On a red carpet best known for fleeting glitz and gilded trophies, Grammy-nominated poet and podcaster Todd Boss made a moment eternal. With cameras flashing at the GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles, he ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...

Who would have guessed that the battle between a UFC champion and UFC President Dana White would result in a poem? At the crux of the battle is Conor McGregor’s not-quite-definitive retirement from ...

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Any time you're facing big failure is a good time to revisit the 1888 poem "Casey at the Bat." It's the classic story of dashed optimism, of an entire city putting its hopes on the result of one ...