Urdu ranks fourth, following Pashto (16%) and Saraiki (14% ... who is believed to have composed poetry in Punjabi using the Persian script. His work laid the foundation for a rich tradition of Punjabi ...

New Irish Writing’s winning poetry entry for April 2025 Paul McMahon, April 2025's selection for New Irish Writing poetry Paul is from Belfast and lives in Clonakilty. He was awarded the Keats ...

SPRINGFIELD — Martin Espada’s new poetry collection, “The Jailbreak of Sparrows,” captures people, politics, and scenes and moments from Puerto Rico. Espada, a University of Massachusetts ...

Karisma Price grew up in New Orleans, then attended Columbia University and earned her MFA in poetry from New York University. Price’s debut poetry collection, “I’m Always so Serious ...

Photo: Eamonn Keogh A Kerry writer returned to his hometown for the local launch of his new book of poetry and photographs on Saturday. Listowel man Paul Byrne launched his new book For the Love ...

From starting writing poetry in high school to winning the Third New Poetry Collection Award (later known as the Lu Xun Literature Prize) for the book Songs of First Love at the age of 26 in 1986, ...

From a Welsh poet well used to crossing borders comes a sixth collection of ardour and courage. Gwyneth Lewis’s First Rain in Paradise (Bloodaxe, £12) confronts past trauma and debility through ...

suffuse the quiet scenes the new poems construct, outdoors in the snow, “beside the abandoned woodstove,” or indoors under the spell of poetry, another “game best played on the floor ...

Lubega will represent the state during the Poetry Out Loud National Finals on May 5-7 in Washington, D.C., after winning the New Mexico finals in mid-March at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

But for Solie, the role of poetry isn't about finding the answers to big questions — it's about honouring our curiosity with the hope that we can eventually find new ways forward. She joins Tom ...