Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

5 Best Poetry Books On Love That Make Deeply Emotional Gifts Poetry books on love, life and wisdom are an emotional gift which can remind the receiver how thoughtful and caring your intentions are to ...

The very name Samuel Taylor Coleridge seems to reverberate like some mysterious timpani. Those magical titles of his vibrate and echo over an infinite distance: Kubla Khan, The Ancient Mariner, ...

Oxford University Press has brought out a series of booklets aimed at introducing leading Urdu poets to the common reader. So I have before me twenty such booklets, each offering a brief introduction ...

After an effusive introduction from Chicago cultural czar Lois Weisberg, Billy Collins stepped lightly onto the stage in the Rubloff Auditorium of the Chicago Historical Society. He stood for a moment ...

ONE is tempted to begin the review of Raza Mir’s The Taste of Words: An Introduction to Urdu Poetry by quoting Gulzar, a versatile genius and a great lover of Urdu. While commending Mir in the ...

T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. It also happens to be National Poetry Month. Many schoolchildren will be admonished to pay attention to poetry these next few weeks - read, analyze, ...

As weather on campus finally made it out of the negatives, The Gund’s Community Foundation Theater housed a dynamic reading and conversation on Monday to highlight the work of Robert P. Hubbard ...

To welcome National Poetry Month, we take a listen to former Poet Laureate Billy Collins read his poem, "Introduction to Poetry." ...