In 2012, the award-winning American writer Sarah Ruhl met a Yale playwriting student who became a special part of her life.

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There’s joy in writing terrible poetry. In looking back at it and laughing a little. It’s the joy of having tried something ...

Paeans to rain and the monsoon are not new in the subcontinent. Kalidasa’s Ritusamhara offers resplendent rhymes to rain, a ...

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In her debut collection, Nafanua Purcell Kersel, born in Samoa and raised in New Zealand, has produced a great piece of work. Black Sugarcane is mainly interested in family, community and ...

Yang Deli (front) teaches a poetry class to her students from Mangshui Town Central School in a field in Changning county, Yunnan province, on Sept 2. XINHUA KUNMING — Teenage poet Li Ling hails ...

I became friends with Helen Vendler — the legendary poetry ... the two parenthetical lines around the mouth that always seemed on the verge of saying something meaningful and the sad-kind ...

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"Therefore, my story ends." Couplets are the most versatile form of rhyming poetry. Whatever your mood or your message, you can start with two lines that rhyme and add other rhymed pairs if you ...