As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

They evoke images and memories we have stored in our minds and hearts. As a young girl, I couldn’t name it, but I was falling in love with, and collecting, words. I pasted poems and song lyrics ...

Diverse elements of Chinese culture and civilization have influenced Persian literature, particularly Persian poetry. Many ...

Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that ...

Poems are ecosystems that we engineer. They are not spaces where images are created, but where images are transformed from pre-existing vocabularies, cast into meaning against the blank space.

Introduction In commemoration of the renowned artist Stanley Greaves’ 90 birthday, the Sunday Stabroek will be featuring ...

The Shark Nursery' is a one-of-a-kind book, filled with achingly beautiful poems that show a true artist at her absolute peak ...

Many of her poems incorporate natural imagery—she herself created a famously exquisite garden in Lynchburg—but with an ironic tone, as in the case of this poem. Born in 1207 in modern-day ...

In its original form, Mahler named the work a Symphonic poem, and the work carried forward that poetic label — ripe with imagery and surprises. Howell’s “Lamia” was first performed in 1919.

Gary Waters—Westend61/Getty Images Quart is the author of five acclaimed ... I have, though, found a reprieve from my anxious inattention: poetry. More specifically, the poetry of survival ...