Urdu ranks fourth, following Pashto (16%) and Saraiki (14%). Yet, the country’s legal system ... who is believed to have composed poetry in Punjabi using the Persian script. His work laid the ...

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 ...

Poet Daud Haider, known for his timeless poem Janmo-i Amar Ajanmo Pap (My Birth, My Eternal Sin), died while undergoing treatment at a Berlin hospital early yesterday (Bangladesh time). He was 73 ...

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.

Who’s on the couch here? The psychiatrist or the poet? The poem or the practice of psychiatry? As a poet and a psychiatrist/therapist, I exist in both practices ...

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 Nigerian creative writer and poet, Ibrahim Nureni, has emerged as the first Nigerian and African to be honoured at the prestigious Maya International Haiku Contest. Nureni earned second place in ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An admired and longtime poet whose subjects range from school integration to the memories of Holocaust survivors has won a $100,000 prize given for “exceptional talent.” ...