Modern poetry is markedly different from classic poetry. It relies less on meter and rhyme, and focuses more on biographical events and the everyday experiences of people. So why isn’t poetry more ...

Regular readers of the New York Times Book Review may recognize David Orr as that publication’s poetry critic — assuming they ever look at poetry criticism in the first place. Orr’s clear, ...

Many a critic, determined to speak with clarity and certitude upon the dauntingly ambiguous subject of modern poetry in English—or upon modernism in general, for that matter—has found himself invoking ...

The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two. Although last year marked the centenary of her birth, the occasion passed ...

The new and emerging genre of poetry, Milk and Honey, is the repackaged poetry of teenage love affairs, where “forever” means “never” and “we’re over” means “I’ll see you next week.” It is short and ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.57.2.0210 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/complitstudies.57.2.0210 Copy URL An earlier version of this paper was given ...

The Hindu Lit for Life 2025: How Modern is Modern Tamil Poetry? “They captured the sense of contradiction and complexity, marking the modern,” she said, and read out poems of Athmanam to reiterate the ...

In a land of vast deserts, lush oases and evocative coastlines, Emirati poetry has for centuries been more than an art form — it has been a way of life. The nation’s oral tradition of poetry, ...