American poet and novelist, Dan Fante, wrote of first discovering Van Gogh, in his poem 7-17-93. A moment captured in time, an externalization of the internal, something abstract and vague. One can ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

Baseball, its late commissioner Bart Giamatti once observed, is designed to break one’s heart. Indeed, the game’s most iconic poem recounts not the home team’s triumphant victory or the exhilaration ...

To see the difference between these three terms, think of a house where the whole building is the poem's form, the rooms are the poem's structure and the furniture is the poem's language It is crucial ...

I rarely find poetry immersive. I, like many people, have taken my fair share of English and workshop classes, and often when ...

Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...

Abhay K is the author of nine poetry collections, and he seems preoccupied with geography, topography, and landscape. He was till recently the Indian Ambassador to Madagascar, but we are concerned ...

“Can poetry save the world?” It’s a brave question to pose at the start of a poetry festival. But St Andrews’ own John Burnside, prolific poet, novelist and professor in the School of English, did not ...

Poetry is the most reactive of literary arts. For new ideas, and changes in the zeitgeist, it is the canary in the mine. Poems about the climate crisis appeared decades before any novels. Robert Frost ...