Last week, Ian Segal, of the poetry department, exchanged e-mails with Barbara Ras, whose poem "Washing the Elephant" recently appeared in the magazine.Ras's new collection, "The Last Skin," will ...

My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up the Task. By Jon Pineda. A basket of apples brown in our kitchen, their warm scent is the scent of ripening, and my sister, entering the room quietly, takes a ...

Elephant in the Dark: Based on a Poem by Rumi Mina Javaherbin, illus. by Eugene Yelchin. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-63670-4 ...

John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1869) was a New England poet and comic wit — of the kind much invited to be an after-dinner speaker. James Thomas Fields remains the model of such figures in that era (and so ...

The sister of a woman killed by a tortured elephant in Thailand says she is disgusted the government has apparently axed plans to ban adverts for foreign holidays involving cruel animal ...

The elephant, Joom, was one of a pair of twins -- a rare occurrence among elephants. She fell ill on Friday, began to vomit and attacked her keeper before dying a few hours later. Television pictures ...

A baby elephant who struggled to get out of a puddle of mud at a watering hole in Kruger National Park in South Africa was rescued by his older sister who used her trunk to help him out.

Heineken Elephant Pub 1 The release of Solomon OB’s poem is today launching the BrewingGood Cheer campaign nationwide. You can watch him perform it in the video at the top of this article.

KARACHI: An African elephant who had just recently been reunited with one of her sisters has died at Karachi Safari... AIRLINK 162.82 Decreased By -2.01 (-1.22%) BOP 9.99 Decreased By -0.01 (-0.1%) ...

A poem about Wing Commander Abhinandan is going viral on social media and WhatsApp is being credited to one "Adhiti", said to be Abhinandan's sister. The poem, however, was written by someone else ...

THE sister of a Dutch teenager who was allowed to starve to death has posted a heartbreaking poem paying tribute to her “shining star”. Noa Pothoven, 17, took the decision to end her life at … ...