For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

GB Cricket Takes Shape for T20 Showdown in Los Angeles With a unified team in the works, the UK’s top cricketers could make history again at LA 2028—reviving the Olympic dream after a 128-year ...

Norfolk poet lands LA Times Book Prize for illuminating portrayal of her grandmothers Remica Bingham-Risher’s work bears witness to the lives of two of her grandmothers, and wins prestigious award.

Dubai: Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of UAE Olympic Committee, has called for Olympic values to be embedded in daily life across sectors including health, education ...

Emerging research finds that poetry can help us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to each other.

The controversial sliding center being completely rebuilt for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics is starting to take shape as the clock ticks down to a March deadline. The outline of the ...

The 2024 Olympics have garnered tens of millions of viewers with jaw-dropping performances and compelling storylines. But in recent days, controversy surrounding the gender of one boxer has also ...

Poetry Was an Official Olympic Event for Nearly 40 Years. What Happened? Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between “muscle and mind” ...

Simona Stallone, a 27-year-old Toronto real estate agent and self-described “unathletic random person," is trying out events from the Summer Games for her TikTok series, The Out of Shape Olympics.

Javelins, batons and paintbrushes: When art was an Olympic sport From a silver medal for the design of a swimming pool in a regional Danish town to a gold medal poem — between 1912 and 1948 ...

In the grander sense, however, the Olympics kicks off Friday with the Opening Ceremony in Paris — a made-for-TV moment ( 1:30 p.m. ET, replay at 7:30 p.m. ET, NBC) that will include the parade ...

This particular revival of the games – which started about 300 years ago – was all about wordplay and battles of wit.