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Patna: As CBSE and CISCE board examinations draw near, experts advise students to prioritize proper nutrition, sufficient hydration, and adequate rest.

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

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The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, ...

Years of Absence... Eight Centuries of Presence' exhibition, currently running at the House of Wisdom in Sharjah until 14th February, sheds light on Jalal al-Din Rumi’s enduring influence on cultural ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...