Syria’s new leaders have been criticised after they announced plans to remove poetry about women and love from schools under ...
Joyce Kilmer famously wrote, “I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.” Well, south Minneapolis has a tree ...
Overwhelmed by Singapore Art Week? Here are some further additions to your itinerary. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January ...
are the subject of a verse from the Koran about people who had angered God. Philosophy units on topics such as Chinese thought are also to be deleted, with any remaining content rephrased ...
Here’s an old poem to greet the new year. Greet, yes, even if we’re filled with dread or sorrow, there’s always a fresh start ...
Many other English translations opt for free verse, or a looser rhyme scheme ... You're losing the music of the poem." "And – perhaps this will sound a bit, you know, anal, – but just ...
If the Booker Prize is “posh bingo”, the TS Eliot Prize is the Cinderella Booker – the annual ball where poets descend from ...
None of us will ever come close to what 18th century genius Samuel Johnson achieved in his lifetime: poems, plays, polemics, ...
The maze for Mr. Roubaud was often old verse forms ... “France was free,” he recalled, “but we, we lost most of our huge liberty.” He published his first poetry when he was still a young ...