Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

with poems in your pocket, you’ll be armed with beauty and food for the soul and you will never be lonely.” If you look around you, you might be surprised at the poetry you’ll find in everyday life.

‘Modern Poetry: Poems’ by Diane Seuss. (Graywolf Press) “The danger/ of memory is going/ to it for respite,” writes Diana Seuss in “Weeds,” the best poem in her first collection following the Pulitzer ...

Ranging widely across canonical and contemporary poetry, The Value of Poetry shows how poems matter, and what poetry offers to readers in the contemporary world. ‘Drawing on an ample range of ...

Closed-form poetry is what we usually think of as traditional poetry – but modern poets also enjoy ... Checking Out Me History is an example of an open form poem but one that still has a shape ...

This anthology is the companion volume to The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry ... The lesser known Cros and Desnos, fresh and spontaneous poets with an immediate appeal, invite a new look at the ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries of the genre, died on Nov. 13. He was 92. While his poems have been translated into many foreign ...