Urdu Shayar Waseem Barelvi reveals how Shah Rukh Khan convinced him to use his couplet in Jawan. Poet shares the anecdote.

Hours before the first shots of the American Revolution rang out, 700 British soldiers stationed in Boston mobilized under cover of darkness, hoping to stop the war in its tracks. After overpowering a ...

Nest of Matches, the ingenious and savvy new book by Amie Whittemore, out from Autumn House Press, is full of such ...

And when they do that, they look very closely for what’s called a “couplet.” A couplet shows an area of rotation within a thunderstorm and here’s how it works. In a radar’s velocity ...

Maya Angelou is the second poet in history to read a poem during a presidential inauguration; Robert Frost was the first ...

Leah Veronese, reveals how the poem was politically repurposed and set to music during the English Civil ... The song-setting includes seven additional lines, and changes to the Shakespeare’s original ...

Borough of Manhattan Community College student Stephanie Pacheco, the 2024-25 National Youth Poet Laureate, wrote a poem highlighting her experience at The City University of New York and her ...

NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking ...

Calling a single couplet, just two lines, a poem is quite surprising, because in Urdu when we say poem we mean ‘nazm’, or a modern poem. And as we all know, Ghalib or Mir never wrote any ...

The City University of New York does not have a school song. But this week it is getting a school poem, “Dear CUNY.” It was written by the national youth poet laureate, Stephanie Pacheco ...

In another of his judgments, Justice Katju opened his ruling with the famous line from the Faiz Ahmed Faiz ghazal Gulo mein rang bhare – a poem of longing. Qafas udaas hai yaaron sabaa se ... State of ...

The most famous of all Christmas poems, “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (aka the “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem) is generally credited with popularizing the version of Santa Claus ...