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

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

There’s still plenty of gold in California’s fertile dirt. It lies dormant most of the year until the warm days of early ...

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

Feng's family recently donated some of his works to the China National Academy of Painting in Beijing, including six ...

Arian Katsimbras’ debut poetry collection, The Wonder Years, published in 2023, details his harrowing, lonely, beautiful childhood in Washoe Valley.

I walk around the city without a camera, which is like saying that I feel incomplete, because my memories will die sooner ...

A friend recently sent me an Instagram reel of a police officer in China sitting down to eat. “Isn’t this from my hometown?,” he asks, pointing to a dish on the table — not knowing his ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Bollywood actor Vicky Kaushal impressed the audience on Marathi Language Day with his recitation of the Marathi poem Fakht Ladh Mhan. He expressed his deep connection to Maharashtra and its culture.