Poetry is a beautiful art, which involves a lot of creativity just like other genres of art, but it seems it struggles to find its feat, compared to other genres of art. Poets in Nigeria struggle to ...

What does the future hold for poetry in East Africa? Has time for juicy pieces like Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino gone? Can the glory be reclaimed? Albeit these could be questions many poetry lovers ...

We millennials like our poetry typed out in neat fonts on rustic pastel backgrounds, centred in a tiny square on a small screen. We read short, simple, and relatable poems which may strike a chord ...

But growing up, the 26-year-old'sview of poetry was heavily influenced by those two men, "both of whom were writers who have experiences that I didn't identify with as a working-class Salvadoran girl ...

Learning a language is like constructing a building. Step by step, as the building blocks are cemented together, it gains height. Similarly, the building blocks of language (grammar, prose, poetry) ...

LAHORE: Marsiya, a genre of Urdu poetry can trace its origins to the subcontinent, said an expert on Urdu language, literature, and poet Dr Arfa Zehra. She expressed these views during a session ...

Two refreshing initiatives, "Poetry on Monuments" and "Poetry of Cross-Cultures", have taken poetry out of books, conventional readings and literature festivals to form bigger circles of poets and ...