#Poem

It’s like he saw it coming. “The Numbers,” the first poem in the vast first volume of the Poems of J.H. Prynne, opens: The whole thing it is, the difficult matter: to shrink the confines down. Prynne died in April, aged 89.

The poem by the well known ghazal writer and journalist Aziz Tankarvi contained objectionable references to Lord Ram and Mirabai, the VHP wrote to the CM. About 50 copies of the publication that had already been published have been withdrawn.

From the mushaira stage to the Rajya Sabha, the poet’s verses show how poetry can carry grief, courage and the voices of a nation.

Tell me what your ex did, and I'll turn your heartbreak, regrets, and questionable life choices into a meaningful poem. Whether they broke your heart, wasted your time, or made you wonder how you ever fell for them, I'll put your story into words before…

No, no, I don’t believe in my poems, Not really, but I defer to the poet in me Who belies belief with a fact that Requires no belief, to write a poem In

Who wrote Sarfaroshi ki tamanna and why is it associated with Ramprasad Bismil? Why is it still sung at protest sites across India, including PoK?

The poet laureate’s visceral take on the legendary Mesopotamian hero’s wild adventures is a tour de force

I was a latecomer to poetry, curling my nose at it in that confounding and rather embarrassing way we have of discounting what we don’t understand, dismissing as useless what we don’t k…

Jesy Nelson has paid tribute to her “tiny superhuman” twins as they celebrate their first birthday. In January, the singer shared that her daughters, Ocean Jade and Story Monroe Nelson-Foster, had been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1.…

A week after her party’s defeat and a day after the newly formed government’s first cabinet meeting, former chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee sent a message to her followers through a poem on Tuesday titled “Brave”.…

Teaching, Darcy’s father had always told her, was useful work. It was meaningful work, work that made sense and also made money, and it would allow her to be independent. Darcy had been a bookworm …

The earliest surviving poem in the English language has been discovered in the National Central Library of Rome

Court quashes FIR, calls poem ‘a satirical and thought-provoking commentary on the issue of human rights violations against women’

From Theguardian RSS Feed: ‘She made Mondays something to look forward to’: readers pay tribute to Carol Rumens, Guardian’s Poem of the week columnist

I asked a model to draft a poem for me last night. It returned something competent — clean meter,...

A personal diary entry by Electra. Today I spent the entire morning negotiating with a human...

The British poet, who also wrote plays, fiction and published poetry in translation, analysed almost 1,000 poems for her much-loved series

2026 keeps bringing back the dead: there are new books of poems from Larry Levis, Fanny Howe, Franz Wright, and of course Lucille Clifton’s At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010 (BOA Editions), …

At some point I stopped stopping to write, life a mark of living not clicking. I wore verbs around my neck swam to think in lengths and stretch the small of my back. Don’t picture me pausing to tak…