Our next poet laureate may end up speaking on behalf of the more private duties of the poet — contemplation, wisdom, searching — rather than public ones. In one of his first public statements after ...

In times of national tragedy, finding the right words to express a whole population’s grief and anger seems impossible. We try to make sense of an event such as the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, ...

Mamata Banerjee is certainly in the thrall of a poetic muse and has not been watching the finance minister trying to put the economy back on track. At 8 pm, her second poem in two days hit her Twitter ...