Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a friend poem.

Alexander Ostrovskiy explores spiritual poetry as a path to self-discovery, inner connection, and the search for meaning.

Not-to-be-missed literary events in Paris and the Île-de-France region in January 2025 Readers of all ages, Paris and the ...

Dr Sanjeev Chopra Authors of most books published in the last two years – and I know this from reading the Prologue/Preface/Acknowledgments in books nominated for the Valley of Words Book Awards – ...

Closed-form poetry is what we usually think of as traditional poetry – but modern poets also enjoy the ... John Agard’s Checking Out Me History is an example of an open form poem but one ...

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On January 25, the birthday of its national poet, Scotland celebrates Burns Night with a traditional Scottish meal washed ...

I should have known something special was happening Downtown on a windy, wet, early-April evening when I saw a 10-year-old ...

No other classic text has left such a mark on how we tell stories, create theatre, and structure film. But what does it ...

This is called a rhyme scheme. Watch the following clip to learn how rhyme schemes work and to see an example. You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with ...

In "Planetfall," imaging the cosmos is more than an exploratory pursuit. It is an ecstatic act of creative expression.