As of Tuesday, the new Illinois Poet Laureate is named Mark Turcotte and this is a portion of one of his poems, the beginning stanza of “Flies Buzzing.” “Mark Turcotte’s work reflects the ...

He lived in India for 13 years before leaving for Germany where he died at the age of 73. Sahitya Akademy Award-winning Bengali poet Subodh Sarkar told PTI that Haider's poems reflected anger and ...

Autistic poets write about many topics. But their work is particularly poignant when discussing how they fit into a world that often labels them broken, incomplete or something less than human.

Perhaps, nobody in the city conforms more to the top court's definition of Urdu than former IRS officer-poet Vinod Kumar Tripathi. Tripathi, 68, whose pen name is ‘Bashar', embodies the language ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for an Egyptian poet and activist who has been allegedly detained and held in solitary confinement without charge in the United Arab Emirates for over 100 days have filed a ...

Initially, the grand opening party at Poets Books (2649 Main St., #160) was going to be invite-only. Now owner Marco Cavazos has decided to throw his doors wide to the hoi polloi Thursday ...

She’s the queen of claptrap. The Rembrandt of rambling. TV’s undisputed poet laureate of nonsense. The character vacillates between every emotion, with unbridled rage and barely-concealed ...

Poetry Moment Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally ...

Kesari Chapter 2 landed in trouble after poet and lyricist Yahya Bootwala accused the film’s writer Sumit Saxena of plagiarism. The poet claimed a dialogue from his poem Jallianwala Bagh has ...