NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking couplets, of Mir Taqi Mir was the mantra in Urdu criticism ever since ...

Paul Revere was immortalized by Longfellow's poem and became an American icon. William Dawes, the other midnight rider, is ...

Haiku can serve as a catalyst for discussion and creativity as students work together to create their own poems.

Wanting to spread the word about Windsor’s diverse literary history, Gervais set out to organize and curate a public exhibit ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — Celebrate rhyme and verse, metaphors and emotions in local events honoring National Poetry Month.

A special performance and discussion in Mumbai will shine a light on the extended forms of Urdu poetry like masnavi, beyond ...

The grave of William Shakespeare in Holy Trinity Church inscribed with the words "Good friend for Jisus sake forbeare,"To ...

The exhibit highlights some of the area’s early writers, like steamship traveller Anna Brownwell Jameson and abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd Cary, as well as famous literary luminaries from the 20th ...

USU researcher Brook Haight explores poet May Swenson's unpublished artwork, revealing a new dimension to her poetry.

At a final dress rehearsal, Hanna laughed at how “The Tempest” has become a traditional farewell to theater-making, precisely ...

A rare manuscript version of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, discovered by Dr. Leah Veronese, reveals how the poem was politically ...

Has no one noticed that art for as long as it has existed is entirely derivative? That humans are as mimetic as machines?