The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...

“What is poetry? Why, sir,” roared Dr. Johnson to his ever-attentive Boswell, “we all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is . . . It is much easier to say what it is not.” Poetry ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

New Delhi: As the world prepares to welcome 2026, New Year shayari becomes one of the most beautiful ways to express emotions that words alone often fail to capture. Shayari has always been a timeless ...

A recent New York Times opinion piece declared “Poetry is dead.” Obviously, we poets around the world set the author straight. Poetry is not dead; in fact, it’s especially thriving in Alaska. Alaskan ...

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 ...