We have only a handful of female poets in Sanskrit – it has always been an elite language. However, the poems we do have make up in quality what is missing in quantity.

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

Mumbai, February 2025 – The much-anticipated short film Bhole Ki Bhool, starring Govind Namdev as Lord Shiva and directed by Dave Sidhu, has successfully completed its Mumbai shoot.The ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

On June 14, 2024, at Cape Cod’s National Seashore near Provincetown, Massachusetts, the nation’s twenty-fourth Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, unveiled the inaugural installation of her signature project, ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

It’s vulgar. It’s dirty. It’s highbrow. Odesa loves its opera, its theater and, perhaps most of all, its poets, who since Russia’s invasion have written a chronicle of life in wartime.

There has never been any enmity among Indian languages, instead they have always adopted and enriched each other: PM ...

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about how they had met in a psychiatric hospital. In the late 1940s, tired and ...

Eminent Sindhi poet Allah Bux aka Dr Akash Ansari died on Saturday. He was 69. Police have opened a probe to dig out the facts behind his death apparently caused by a fire in his room. The poet ...