Today marks the 33rd death anniversary of Eshrat Rahmani, a celebrated Urdu poet known for his eloquent poetry and deep reflections on human emotions and social issues. Eshrat Rahmani was born on ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

One of his final poems, “Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossom,” might be his most memorable, but my personal favorite will always be “September,” in no small part because it was turned into a song by ...

Mohammed Moussa is a Palestinian freelance journalist, podcast host, and the founder of the Gaza Poets Society.  The group is ...

The event, Inheriting Shadows: Children of the Atom, was organised by Non-Aligned Poets Collective (NPC), a poets community ...

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

Poetry will take the centrestage on Friday, March 21, as the world celebrates World Poetry Day (WPD). Declared by the United Nations , ...

Lauren Christensen’s memoir, “ Firstborn ,” begins with an epigraph from Louise Glück’s poem “The Wild Iris”: “Hear me out: ...

Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first ...

Cohen began to publish poetry and then novels ... was ready to embrace his death. Last month, in a profile of Cohen in The New Yorker, Bob Dylan compared his fellow singer-songwriter to Irving ...

Although D.C.’s iconic Black Lives Matter Plaza is being torn up, other street art from the summer of 2020 remains, and a few ...