Whatsapp Seventeenth-century Kashmiri mystic Rupa Bhawani blended Shaivism and Sufism through yoga and poetry, emerged as Lal ...

An Instagram reel of a woman reciting a sharp Urdu couplet went viral with 28 million views, until viewers discovered she was ...

Through 'Feng Shui Poetry in the Parks,' launched by West Hollywood's poet laureate and nurtured by a local English teacher, ...

Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has ...

In my early days as a journalist, I was brash, chasing interviews for any publication that would have me, full of youthful confidence. But this was different.

The book, described online as "comical poetry," meant to "strip the pretentiousness of poetry in a funny and enlightening way," is filled with sexual innuendoes, foul language and references to drugs, ...

Employees, poets, and other community members at the Poetry Foundation are protesting the organization’s decision, announced on December 1, to phase out all public programming, beginning in the new ...

Albuquerque resident Karin Stangl said her two recent poetry books are aimed at middle school readers. But one could argue that the silliness of the stories and the art make them appropriate for ...

Fiona Benson’s Midden Witch is a ferocious and frightening book that illuminates those women – often healers, artists – termed ‘witch’. In Benson’s poems a gentle spirit somehow coexists with an ...

Patricia Smith, an acclaimed poet and professor of creative writing at Princeton, received the National Book Award for Poetry on Friday for her new poetry collection, “The Intentions of Thunder: New ...

Shannon Gramse’s “Lost Last Poems” is no ordinary poetry book, and there is neither anything “lost” nor “last” about the poems. Instead, the book is based upon a clever and entertaining conceit. In ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...