If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would look something like this: “Goodnight Moon,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” For many of us poetry ...

On March 25, 2025, Wesleyan University Press (WesPress) published Rachel Trousdale’s “Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem,” the inaugural winner of its Cardinal Poetry Prize. The collection ...

The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and the afternoon breezes are doing their best to hold off the sure-to-come heat ...

To celebrate National Poetry Month in April, we invited 5 Washington Post photographers to capture nature, and invited 5 ...

The K-Pop star later changed into a custom Off-White set featuring a corset and pleated skirt covered in Swarovski crystals. Swarovski crystals also adorned her colorful custom Michael Schmidt ...

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on municipal signage in Maharashtra, describing it as “the finest specimen of Hindustani culture”, as Indian as Hindi or ...

Over time, this new hybrid language became more structured and was increasingly used in literature, poetry, and everyday communication. Urdu found its most powerful expression in poetry (especially ...

The award-winning poet and best-selling author performed on 10 April to a bustling ... pride as an aging woman to throwing off advice she is given as a new parent. The collection is filled with her ...

He’s published poetry ... “Best of the Net” and “Pushcart Prize," and he’s taught creative writing in universities, libraries and prisons. Now, he’s publishing his first poetry ...

Yes, but also no. When introducing celebrated Hmong American poet Mai Der Vang’s latest poetry collection, Primordial, to peers here in Vietnam, the collection’s forefronting of the beloved and ...

That’s the thing about poetry: it’s all how you perceive it ... or are the poems in here a collection of new perceptions and ways to embrace what could be? Read, and think about it because ...

100 Indian Stories: A Feast of Remarkable Short Fiction from the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries, edited by writer, translator and poet AJ Thomas, is an ambitious collection of Indian short fiction.