News

As Americans continue to weather the pandemic, many have been turning to poetry: According to the executive director of the Academy of American Poets, traffic to the organization’s site ...
In Gulmarg, speaking with media, Abdullah also quoted a couplet of Pakistani Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, “Dil na umeed to nahi ...
What do you get if you add poems that are “Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids” with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?
Couplet founder Gefen Skolnick was coffee-famous before she ever even sold her first bag of beans. 'My sauce is I like to ...
In The Irish Times tomorrow, John Boyne writes about the art of book reviewing, as he reviews his 150th book for The Irish Times more than two decades after his first. Kevin Power lifts the veil ...
Art is a core component of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and while you get to explore the concepts of painting throughout the game’s story, there is one quest that involves the power of poetry.
His work has been featured in the Philly Weekly, Metro Philly, Philadelphia Inquirer, Button Poetry, Voices in Power, and Def Poetry Jam, to name a few. Lindo’s creativity has expanded to include ...
To begin with, Kishwar Naheed's 1992 poem, 'Girti hui Diwar-e Berlin, Gunter Grass aur Main', is a timely reminder of what silence around traumas and mythmaking does to a country's national ...
On a recent Friday afternoon, I joined Joe Hoover, S.J., our poetry editor, and James Davis May, the winner of last year’s contest, in a spirited debate to choose the winning poem for the 2025 ...
Because to God must be given the things that belong to God, and to the world must be given the things that belong to the world, I kiss you with both lips, upper and lower. Because the world keeps ...
An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.
The Nobel laureate wrote two poems for the Poems on the Dart project, but only one of them has been published so far Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. Photo: Getty “People say there’s no ...