“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what ...

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

While core acts of devotion take center stage, qasidas (Islamic odes) and devotional poetry serve as powerful complements, ...

O, Miami - the organization that uses the transformative power of poetry to connect people, spark empathy, and foster a ...

Costi views poetry and writing as forms of advocacy. In The Heart of the Advocate, she told Neos Kosmos that she invests in poems “that walk you from the court’s bench to find a window, where you view ...

I think he was a bit worried about me, because I was giving up my profession for this thing called poetry.” The ‘thing called poetry ... what that job is,” Armitage says. “It’s a long time since I was ...

so long as it’s on the shorter side (25 lines or less per poem, up to five poems). Poets selected for the Saturday, April 26 Writes of Spring feature in the Free Press will receive $75 ...

The Spirit of Ramzan Captured in Verse Ramzan is a time for introspection, prayer, and reflection, and Urdu poetry has long served as ... reminding visitors of the power of words to inspire ...

At a recent New York benefit concert, Patti Smith was joined by Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Depp, Flea, Karen O and many more ...

But democracy is, at its core, fundamentally an ethical relationship. Even in its most elementary form, elections, democracy ...