Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.
Ye Xiaogang (left) and Pu Cunxin pose with the vinyl record. [Photo provided to China Daily] In portraying the character of ...
In honour of Mahmoud Darwish’s 84th birthday, we examine how the Palestinian wordsmith continues to inspire creativity in the ...
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 ...
Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...
If you grew up in Canada with friends outside of the country, there's an uncanny experience you've likely lived through: that of mentioning a famous song or musician, only to realize no one knows ...
Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin ... why she’s returned to the sound that made her famous.
“I took the one less traveled by,” declares the speaker of “The Road Not Taken,” perhaps Frost’s most famous poem, after meeting a fork in the path. “And that has made all the difference.