All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to something higher.” ...

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A doha is a self-contained rhyming couplet consisting of two lines (hemistichs) that express a complete idea, often philosophical, spiritual or didactic in nature.

Through smog and soot and horrid dust,/You will have to endure/To make a wage... This verse can evoke a more eloquent exp ...

While I was researching options for this article, my husband was joking about how some childhood memories linger forever. He ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

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Interestingly, the other half of the rhyming couplet for that line comes in at a close second. That kinda thing makes a man go mmm mmm. 2.

Yu Youren 草书五言联 (Five-character poem in cursive script) (couplet) 72.5 x 41 cm. (28.5 x 16.1 in.) close Medium ink on paper, backed Size 72.5 x 41 cm. (28.5 x 16.1 in.) Description Keffiyeh truffaut ...

A new play by MacArthur “genius grant” recipient Taylor Mac invites questions about the moral value of philanthropy in a society denounced by the comedy as “feudal.”.

AP News AP Business Taylor Mac’s ‘Prosperous Fools’ skewers wealthy philanthropists in a biting satire ...