For Valentine’s Day this year, why not give the gift of Broadway? To help you woo your plus one of choice—Valentine, ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

The third set of stories and poems covers 'blends'. These are letters which join together to make another sound, for example, br ot, gl as, ia sg. Lists of the words in each set are given below. In ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

The city’s buildings were once laid out in a way that formed a rhythmic pattern. Today’s structures are tone-deaf.

and ends with poems from To a Little Girl, published posthumously in 1978. Throughout, we see the development of a poetic voice, as she moves from traditional rhyme-schemes and forms into a ...

Couplets that rhyme with ‘Make in India’ while critiquing contemporary ... These are specimens from Jeet Thayil’s latest poetry anthology, I’ll Have It Here, that blends the real with the absurd, ...

On the opposite page to each couplet Dr Rahman provides the reader ... aimed at conveying the charm of Ghalib’s poetry through its rhyming and metrical music and its aphoristic and philosophical ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...