The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus.

“After Sappho,” Selby Wynn Schwartz’s debut novel, considers the lives of women artists and intellectuals at the turn of the 20th century. Sappho and her poems anchor Selby Wynn Schwartz’s ...

John J. Miller is joined by Jessica Hooten Wilson of Pepperdine University to discuss the poetry of Sappho. ... The Great Books. A Thank You and a Farewell. April 30, 2025.

Mary Oliver, the best-selling poet who won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, has always been a fan-favorite poet, ... “The Complete Poems of Sappho” by Sappho.

The roll comes from Book 1 of Sappho’s Alexandrian edition. Both papyrus and ink date to A.D. 201, and the copyist’s hand squares with that period. The poems are in Sapphic stanzas, arranged ...

Tawanda Mulalu’s first book is an energetic and energizing assemblage of restlessly shifting modes, juggling forms and shuffling styles. The linguistic playfulness that animates his poems ...

Sappho’s poetry, what’s left of it, teaches us that we have only ever lived or loved in pieces and parts. “Our lives are the lines missing from the fragments,” Schwartz writes. “The ...

Queer literature isn’t just a modern phenomenon; it boasts a rich and diverse history that spans centuries. From the lyrical ...

Sappho composed 10,000 lines of poetry over her lifetime, amassed at one point into nine books at the Library of Alexandria. Only 650 lines remain, across salvaged stanzas, sentences, and single ...

Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, ... Only fragments remain of the work of Sappho, a poet born around 650 B.C.E. on the Greek island of Lesbos, ...