A friend of mine summarised her PhD in song form, taking the tune of a well-known hymn. She did it for a laugh but also thought it’d help her compress her thoughts. I forget what she rhymed ...

Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

Yesterday selections from the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress became available to stream online for the first time. Main reading room of the Library of Congress in ...

For centuries, Native poetry has been preserved by the spoken word. So when a team of editors were putting together a new anthology of Native poetry, with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo among them, they ...

[ region ] Classical Persian verse constantly evokes Afghanistan and its glorious history. Poets such as Rumi (from Balkh), Sanai (from Ghazni), and Jami (from Ghor) are still celebrated today. In the ...

Shahriar's poetry was diverse in its themes, touching upon topics such as love, nature, and the socio-political situation in Iran. Notably, he gained widespread acclaim for his celebrated Azerbaijani ...

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