Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Following the success of its first poetry slam, Anton Art Center will host a second event geared around Valentine’s Day ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Jeet Thayil turns a mirror to the country and himself in his new book. Gandhi is reborn as a house gecko, the government is fake and his love grows wings and flies away.

McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...

The answers ranged from “not prose”, “rhyming ... poems but have also made inroads into our conversations. Some of us have become friends with poetry and a couple have also fallen in love ...

Feb. 6-23, on Octagon Stage. Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, ...

Love you guys.” Drawer #5046 held poems scribbled on scraps of paper. The handwriting ranged from elegant cursive to hurried scrawls, as though some words were too urgent to wait for neatness. Some ...

and includes an audio experience. Author of Alora: 'She dreamt poems in many tongues', Nthabiseng Jahrose Jafta, joins us in studio.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.