Elusive and magical, both silent and garrulous, both feared and beloved, Coyote is the ultimate contradiction — an animal associated with both wisdom and foolishness, cunning and buffoonery, ...

“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...

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University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. What is a society without its poets? If all poetry disappeared from our libraries and shelves and virtual ...