If you like, picture a bouncing baby New Year in your arms, powder fresh. The images all amount to the same thing: January is ...

The role of grassroots reporters like Mukesh Chandrakar take on greater importance in such conflict-ridden zones such as ...

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Day, who is deaf and uses they/them pronouns, has spent the year working on highlighting sign language poetry, a well-established artistic form within Deaf culture that has received little ...

The subject line of the email said, "What if..." Editor Amos Bridges explains how a weekly column about poetry found a place ...

How the filmmakers behind 'A Complete Unknown' embraced the grit of the New York streets.

What does a bird have to do with anything ... Ten of this poem’s 11 lines — the scholar’s part — amount to a catalog of ugliness. The language is correspondingly blunt and profane ...

Let’s have a sampling of reader mail. A reader writes, Hello, Jay, . . . Memorizing poems is a fantastic endeavour — it enhances one’s love of language; increases one’s vocabulary ...

In “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” Swift sings, “Come close I’ll show you heaven / If you’ll be an angel all night.” In ...

Faith Arkorful has had her work ... General's Literary Award for poetry. P.E.I. writer Bren Simmers wins 2022 CBC Poetry Prize for work inspired by how Alzheimer's affects language The poems ...

“Why is it you never go on pilgrimage”, she asks All places in her body are sacred barring her breast – “translating desire in the holy language is a sin”, she tells me. I see dark brown ...

the Arabic language has given rise to a fascinating aesthetic, in fields as varied as architecture, poetry, philosophy and song. It gives access to an incredible variety of identities and beliefs ...