AN event aiming to celebrate and teach children about Bengali culture is being held in Basingstoke this summer. Utsav ...

But perhaps his least-known endeavor was as a poet. Kilmer was a writer of poetry for much of his adult life, having begun dabbling in the form in his twenties as he studied at The Juilliard ...

Panchanan Karmakar’s creation led to the printing of the first Bengali language book, and his legacy will soon be showcased to Kolkata Hidden in the lanes of Serampore is the ancestral home and the ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

In 1994, Australian poet Dorothy Porter published a book unlike any other: Monkey's Mask, a lesbian crime novel written in verse. The genre-bending book was a bestseller and was later adapted for ...

The mural of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, which was blotted with black ink by miscreants, has been restored in Bangladesh's Kushtia district, media reports said on Sunday.

The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...