"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 ...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poet shaped by early heartbreak and political disillusionment, blended romance and revolution in his work.

This past year I designed an undergraduate course that I called ‘The Poetry of Love’. One of the challenges of the course was how to define “love”. The English language bundles many ...

Jerry was in love with the English language in all its forms of expression, but he especially prized poetry. In his last years, despite memory loss, he could still recite many poems. Several memorials ...

Celebrate Father's Day 2025 with this emotional and heartfelt poem in English. A perfect tribute to dads who are everyday heroes. Share it to express your love!

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we've been reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" in partnership with Seattle Reads.

Pakistan and its people have inherited rich cultural heritage of poetry from the pre-partition era. This heritage included great names in Urdu and Persian poetry, like Mirza Ghalib, Momim, Dard ...

Publishers might find their next big literary hit comes from a so-called minority British language. Shakespeare ruined poetry. When Early Modern English Literature was still in its infancy, along ...

Ivan is gutted when he finds out that one of the greatest ever Latino poets Jorge Luis Borges preferred English to Spanish, their shared mother tongue. Award-winning Afro-Brazilian Latinx writer ...