There’s been an influx of books in recent years on how to, or how not to, read poetry. Why do you think that is? Books on what poetry’s about aren’t new. They’ve been around since the ...

Inmates must have at least six months of good conduct to take the class, which has three goals: teach poetry basics, revive inmates' creative abilities and share their works with the outside ...

April is National Poetry Month, and this week we revive an old tradition by devoting an entire issue to the form. But first we ask a very basic question: What is poetry, anyway? There’s no ...

Poetry 'is a basic pillar of civilisation and an expressive device' Dubai: The deterioration of poetry is just as dangerous a phenomenon as global warming, a researcher claimed on the fourth day ...

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 ...