The traditional Chinese couplet is an artistic combination of poetry and calligraphy. A couplet, as the Chinese – yinglian or duilian – for this duo implies, is composed of a pair (fu) of antithetical ...

You can make a novel out of just about anything these days: recipes, PowerPoint slides, e-mails, text messages. Still, not many novelists have turned to rhyming couplets. The novel is an expansive, ...

SOME 50 years ago, a publisher in India began publishing selections from Urdu poetry. Each selection consisted of 100 best couplets of an individual poet. Many such selections were published and it ...

I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

In “2pac couplets,” Oakland native Chinaka Hodge pays homage to one of her literary heroes. Tupac Shakur, victim of an unsolved shooting in 1996, was a rapper, singer, actor, poet and activist.

Writing a couplet can be tough, But when you work with friends, it's not so rough. On Monday, NPR's Morning Edition asked listeners and readers to share poems about the teams in their lives — both on ...

Mirza Ghalib once said this about Meer Taqi Meer, another renowned poet of his time: “Reekhta kay tumhi ustaad nahi ho Ghalib, Kehte hain agle zamane me koi Mir bhi tha. “(You are not the only master ...

Balladz by Sharon Olds; Material Properties by Jacob Polley; Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan; Brother Poem by Will Harris; Couplets by Maggie Millner Balladz by ...