Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Back in 2016, 19 Singlish words – such as “ang moh”, “shiok”, “sabo”, and “lepak” – were added. And on 11 February, 2015, “kiasu” was even featured as the OED’s Word of ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

Gigil, a Philippine word added to the Oxford English Dictionary, decribes the feeling we get when we see someone or something cute Ever found yourself speechless in the presence of overwhelming ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Amid the raging controversy, some users on social media have been sharing an old clip of a poetry recital by the famous Urdu poet, late Rahat Indori. The 2007 performance was from one of the ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

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The author and poet Michael Rosen introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The space on the page The 'space' is a ‘friend’ to whom Michael Rosen can tell anything.

“Alamak” and “nasi lemak” have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for the first time. According to the dictionary, they are among a number of “untranslatable words” from ...