Think you have a way with words? The Poetry Slay Challenge by Keno Publications invites poets, writers and logophiles to an evening in Nicosia dedicated to performance poetry. This Thursday night ...

April is National Poetry Month in the United States, a time to celebrate and bring to light the poets and poetry that have shaped our nation. In honor of the month, I took a peek at Boston’s ...

(If you’re just discovering the Poetry Challenge, please check out yesterday’s introduction. It’s never too late to start!) Once you’ve got these, you’ve learned a third of the poem ...

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 ...

Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza Aufrichtig Someone once defined poetry as “memorable speech.” By that standard, each of us ...

Daud Haider, the first exiled poet, writer, and columnist of independent Bangladesh, has passed away at the age of 73. He breathed his last on Saturday at a senior care center in Berlin, the capital ...

Was Daud Haider one too? Did he foresee his stateless future in his poetry? We might never know. Poets are mysterious in their own ways. They take their mysteries to the grave, leaving us mortals ...

Ever thought about writing a poem? Why not take the leap? In a new series, award-winning poet Jessica Traynor shares insights to help you find your voice. It's a grey Monday morning and last week ...

Poetry Moment Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally ...

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 ...

Almir Agić, a 22-year-old Roma man from Ilijaš, near Sarajevo, fights prejudice with poetry and art, giving a voice to those who are invisible in society. In his poetry collection “Kaktus u polju ...