The poem reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” ...

As Reang explains, this comes from a Khmer (pronounced "come-eye") saying: " Joh duc, kapeur; laurng loeur, klah ." "Go in ...

NELLORE: With a literary career spanning over five decades, Telugu poet Dr Perugu Ramakrishna has made a significant mark in ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in ...

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

As fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo rages on, a growing number of women in the country are turning to slam poetry ...

Abhaya- Women Who Dared is a celebration of women where verses from the past meet voices of the present. Renowned Carnatic vocalist Chitra Srikrishna has curated the event, which will feature poetry ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ... than romantic love. It may come from one of the greatest upheavals ...

That was where I'd come out to myself, away from the small Christian town I grew up in. My parents raised my siblings and me Catholic ... I read a poem onstage and had a vendor booth where ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

His latest book of poems, “Doggerel,” is forthcoming. In November, two days before my 44th birthday, behind a local bike shop that I frequent, a manager from inside the shop approached me and ...

The poets talk about “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane ...