April is National Poetry Month, which celebrates, among other things, the power of poetry. E. Ethelbert Miller reads and discusses several of his poems with Liane Hansen. Miller is director of the ...

Writing about wine can be complicated for many different reasons. Choosing the right word to describe how wonderful (or unique) a wine tastes or smells or all the other ways wine can stimulate our ...

Rwandan heroism is rooted in a long-standing tradition where victory symbolised survival -- whether resisting colonial subjugation or reclaiming dignity through Kwibohora, the liberation struggle that ...

Qatar has added more than 5,000 poems to the blog of eloquent and Nabati poetry in praise of the Prophet (peace be upon him) through Katara prize for the Prophet's poet. Apart from the recipients of ...

In a world awash in tragedy, it’s easy to overlook the ordinary: the simple beauty of the everyday, the breeze that reminds us to inhale and exhale, the still moments that whisper, “Look. See. Live.” ...

Leo recited the first poem. He was sipping whiskey, I was nursing a beer, and spirits seem a potion more conducive to declaiming verse. He was 75 years old that autumn evening; I was 34. I'd known him ...

In the past, most African societies were oral societies. Although some African societies such as in ancient Egypt, the KhoiSan and Nigerians, used hieroglyphics, rock art and Nsibidi as a form of ...

To dramatize both discovery and clarity in a poem is to write a Poetry of Poise. I wish we saw more of it. This is my theme for 2012. It's not so much that a Poetry of Poise is under attack from ...

There could not be a more fitting title for Jeanine Hatha­way’s new poetry collection than Long after Lauds. Lauds is a monastic morning prayer, and Hathaway was a Dominican nun for nine years ...

In previous years, Slatehas paid ambivalent heed to National Poetry Month by publishing poems against poetry, or poems in which the poet disparages other people (and their poems), or poems expressing ...