In “We Are Gathered” at Arena Stage, Tarell Alvin McCraney grapples with the impacts of social change on queer relationships.

The year is 2014 in freshman director Alice Douard’s lightly comic drama “Love Letters” and French couple Nadia (Monia Chokri ...

Dinkar’s verse, originally a poetic rendering of Lord Krishna's warning to the Kauravas before the Mahabharata war, ...

Across Hyderabad, young people are rediscovering the charm of Urdu, gathering in heritage venues and creative spaces to share ...

To ensure accuracy, the researchers cross-referenced each poem with historical records, examining the poet’s life, geographical movements, and writing style. This allowed them to construct a ...

He went on to cast autism as an “individual tragedy” that “destroys families,” while stating that many autistic people will “never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, ...

As an autistic English professor who studies literature and neurodiversity, I was especially unnerved by Kennedy’s contention that many autistic people will never write poetry. It couldn’t be ...

More recent readers have agreed. Of course, there are countless autistic people who write poetry who aren’t famous and haven’t published books. Neurodivergent poet and educator Chris Martin ...

Once you’ve got these, you’ve learned a third of the poem, since this repeating couplet functions as a ... Poetry is older than writing, and many of its features originated as aids to memory ...

So why is it that people who “can’t write poetry” really do stop right there and never write poems? The fear of failure is so huge for poetry. Before we start, we’re thinking about Emily ...