You won’t sleep until you finish reading this rare, exotic blend of crime and poetry

Sharon Kernot knows how to make a pressing, potent, aching song from a stanza of free verse lines – and how to make a page of ...

I spent 6 months reading poems by young people and found hope

Assertions that today’s generation doesn’t read or doesn’t care are simplistic and unhelpful. There are plenty of thoughtful ...

Every single Anne Hathaway movie, ranked by critics

Oscar-winning actor Anne Hathaway wowed critics with movies like "The Odyssey," but they weren't impressed with her other ...
Saigoneer

Cliché or Parody? Orientalist Readings of Nam Le’s ‘36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem’

One may be surprised to learn that Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Sympathizer was rejected by 13 out of 14 ...
The Conversation

Antipodean prose poetry is coming into its own

Prose poetry had a slow start in Australia. Long after 19th-century French poets, such as Aloysius Bertrand, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, wrote groundbreaking works of prose poetry, ...
Psychology Today

The Psychology of Poetry: How Verse Can Foster Hope

Long before I became a clinical social worker, I was a child who loved reading and writing. My undergraduate degree was in English, and though my career focus evolved over time and took the direction ...
The New York Times

Poetry Challenge Day 3: W.H. Auden, The Poet and His Technique

Now that we’ve memorized the first half of our poem, let’s learn a little more about the man who wrote it. (Haven’t memorized anything yet? Click here to start at the beginning.) For most of his life, ...
The Indian Express

6 stanzas vs 2 stanzas: Why Vande Mataram’s 150-year journey has iconic, contested legacy

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on January 28 notified the first set of protocols for singing Vande Mataram, the national song, directing that all six stanzas of the composition shall be sung ...
India TV

Vande Mataram gets back 4 stanzas, must be played at govt, school events: List of Centre's new guidelines

Vande Mataram - the National Song of India will now be sung or played with all of its 6 original stanzas, the Ministry of Home Affairs has said in its revised guidelines, bringing back the 4 stanzas ...
The Tribune

All stanzas of Vande Mataram a must before national anthem; here's what govt's new guidelines say

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...
The New Indian Express

Decision to use first two stanzas of Vande Mataram was not of Nehru alone: Kharge

NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday accused BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, of insulting Jawaharlal Nehru, as he said the decision to use only the first ...