Dalit rights activist Sudhir Dhawale, accused in the Bhima Koregaon case wrote this poem in prison on 'Why he will not ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

One who concerns himself with the sound of sense more than the subject is an artist.” What is beyond an artist? What is ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

In last week’s column I mentioned I was going to cover a poetry collection then realized I needed to obtain permission to quote from the poems. So I have now asked the poet, Kim Dower, and she gave ...

So, little friends, remember that you are the guardian of your mother tongue, preserve it, nurture it and keep it alive. It is your strength, your identity and your deepest connection to your roots.

Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

ROBERT FROST: Whose woods these are, I think I know. His house is in the village, though. He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow.