L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, b ...

Dr. Refaat Alareer, a martyr poet from Gaza, transformed his death into a defiant call for justice, demanding the world ...

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

I n one of the 50 marvelous sketches populating Eugenio Montale’s “Butterfly of Dinard,” a writer named Gerda asks a young ...

Vinod Kumar Shukla, a Sphinx of contemporary Hindi literature, leaves readers bemused with his obscure yet admired writings.

In short, I became fascinated with the artistic very early on. The obvious answer here would be photography and poetry. I obsessively practise both and have for many years. They are inextricably ...