Paeans to rain and the monsoon are not new in the subcontinent. Kalidasa’s Ritusamhara offers resplendent rhymes to rain, a ...

The municipality of Bergen is going to keep 14 artworks made by Lucebert in their collection, despite the discovery of ...

A spoken-word poet whose work explores themes of history and hope, Gibson sees his art as ‘a means of bringing people ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained ...

Last week, we picked up our 5-year-old son from his public kindergarten in Beijing. On the way home, he proudly recited a ...

Azerbaijan’s freestyle tradition Meykhana thrives in Baku's taverns, where poets like Mehman duel with words.

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...