For “The Favorite Poem Project,” I chose a well-known sonnet of Shakespeare’s because I love how it speaks to readers today.

RUBAA’I, or quatrain, is considered a difficult poetic genre to compose despite its brevity. A quatrain, as the name suggests, is confined to just four lines since the word rubaa’i is derived from an ...

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Asmall but brave publishing house in Bhubaneswar, Four Corners, has just published a book of translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, in honour of his birth centenary (1911-1984). The book is part of a series ...

Across centuries and continents, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror of human experience: a time when beauty and decay, ...