Most introductions, especially introductions to poetry collections, are written to be ignored. No one picks up an anthology looking forward to a terrific introduction: The whole point is the poems, ...

Introducing very young children to art and poetry can be daunting. Do you push them in strollers through museums? Read them everyone from Dr. Seuss to Shakespeare? How can it hurt? But, does it engage ...

Reading is writing, writing is reading and it's a good idea not to judge yourself with what you read. Especially poetry for young people. These are things that have helped me throughout the years. I ...

This workshop is designed to introduce you to the history of poetry today and provide a toolbox of techniques. In each workshop session, writing assignments or prompts will be provided as well as ...

T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. It also happens to be National Poetry Month. Many schoolchildren will be admonished to pay attention to poetry these next few weeks - read, analyze, ...

Oxford University Press has brought out a series of booklets aimed at introducing leading Urdu poets to the common reader. So I have before me twenty such booklets, each offering a brief introduction ...

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 ...

ONE is tempted to begin the review of Raza Mir’s The Taste of Words: An Introduction to Urdu Poetry by quoting Gulzar, a versatile genius and a great lover of Urdu. While commending Mir in the ...