F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in ...

Hyderabad's youth are reviving Urdu through poetry readings and workshops in heritage sites. Platforms like Anjuman-e-Fannan and Heart for Art Hyderabad are fostering community and encouraging new ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating ... Free yourself to play with parody or enjoy collaborative writing with ChatGPT. Consider exploring sound, rhythm, and metaphor in ways ...

By McKinley Franklin Johnny Tillotson, the 1960s chart-topping and Grammy-nominated singer of “Poetry in Motion,” died Tuesday. He was 86. “It is with a broken heart that I write to let you ...

Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind Sixties hits “Poetry in Motion” and “It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’,” has died at the age of 86. Tillotson’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the news in a ...

But this time he focuses on how art, and poetry in particular, both expresses and responds to the unique human experience of “being modern.” We live in a world that the gods have fled and ...

and includes an audio experience. Author of Alora: 'She dreamt poems in many tongues', Nthabiseng Jahrose Jafta, joins us in studio.

Poe based the rhythm and meter of “The Raven” on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “Lady Geraldine’s Courtship,” using a poetic form known as trochaic octameter. This particular meter ...