Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by I.C. Rapoport/Getty Images Here is a love poem, clear-eyed yet passionate, personal and impersonal in ways I admire: “Cascando” by Samuel Beckett. The poem’s ...

This April, poets and poetry lovers everywhere will join together in cracking open their favorite notebooks and anthologies in celebration of the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month — a yearly, ...

Pictures can be poems and vice versa: they're feelings captured in a phrase, a stroke, or an image. Leonardo da Vinci said, "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting ...

Detroit was the first American city Andrei Codrescu came to after he and his mother emigrated from Romania. The New Orleans-based poet, professor, NPR commentator and writer-at-large still recalls the ...

Korea and China have a long history of mutual exchanges. Geographical adjacency has made it possible, and far easier, for the two cultures to interact with each other much more than with other groups.

Some of the participants with the production team after this season's contest of the Chinese Classical Poetry Quiz Show, which concluded last month.[Photo provided to China Daily] Verse written ...

Spring is one of the most popular seasons and a favourite among the writers and poets as its beauty fires up their imagination like no other season. It signifies new life, bringing a lot of happiness ...

Chinese classic poetry often discusses the beauty of nature or the benefits of a simple life. (Pixabay pic) When they are children, most Malaysians are taught the standard nursery rhymes and songs ...

The revival seems to have begun north of the Border, in re-examinations of the Troubles. Greek tragedy was a useful tool to discuss violence Among the many poets in Ireland who have engaged with the ...