And what is so rare as a day in June?” asked the nineteenth-century New England poet James Russell Lowell in an 1848 ...

In her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li tries to honor the lives, and accept the unfathomable deaths, of her ...

Author and international whitewater river guide Bridget Crocker shares the books that helped inspire her new memoir, 'The ...

On my way to Manali from Chandigarh the first sign that greeted me was a Himachal Pradesh Tourism hoarding that said Welcome to Dev Bhoomi Himachal A befitting slogan for a state where Goddess Nature ...

“Oh Lord, Go with each of us to rest; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns, ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

For the twenty-two-year-old Anagarika Dharmapala, his encounter with the fifty-four-year-old Sir Edwin Arnold proved to be a ...

When Valmiki completed his Ramayana Narada said It is good but Hanuman39s is better A perplexed Valmiki set out to find Hanuman and reached Kadali Vana the grove of plantains where he found Hanuman s ...

Christian spiritual insights are still present in English culture, despite the fall in churchgoing, says Bijan Omrani in a ...

Kuvempu’s first attempts at writing were, unsurprisingly, in English. He unapologetically fills his memoirs with page after page of romantic poetry written in E ...

I sometimes think that the deadliest foe of creative impulse in poetry is the faculty of criticism ... The whole poetic choir would chant thy name; It will not falter: from the heart o'erflowing ...

April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a shedding of coats and a gorgeous display of cherry blossoms, magnolias and dogwood trees — nature, in full bloom.