Guest columnist Beth Ann Fennelly analyzes Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 for its enduring relevance. The sonnet describes a speaker's journey from self-pity and envy to finding joy through love. Shakespeare ...

The rhyme “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” began in Victorian England to symbolize luck and balance. Couples can personalize the tradition by combining items, like ...

For Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a poet, poetry was that which “makes nothing happen”. Arnold Bennett, a writer, ...

On a recent drizzly morning, Couplet Coffee owner Gefen Skolnick stepped into her rainbow-hued cafe at the edge of Echo Park and Westlake, stopping by tables to greet visitors who were sipping on ...

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire ...

A doctor by profession and a transcreator at heart… Dr Ravindra Kumar Choudhary, known by his pseudonym ‘Maun Kavi’, celebrates the written word through his translations and transcreations, the latter ...

NEW DELHI: IN a bid to strengthen ‘Brand Delhi’, the city government is set to inaugurate a new chapter of literary festivities with the celebration of Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir whose 300th birth ...

Amelia Dale does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

On Tuesday, product developer Matt Webb launched a Kickstarter funding project for a whimsical e-paper clock called the “Poem/1” that tells the current time using AI and rhyming poetry. It’s powered ...