LAist

Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem 'Introduction to Poetry'

T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. It also happens to be National Poetry Month. Many schoolchildren will be admonished to pay attention to poetry these next few weeks - read, analyze, ...
Asia Society

Modern Poetry of Pakistan: An Introduction

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...
Dawn

COLUMN: An introduction to poetry

Oxford University Press has brought out a series of booklets aimed at introducing leading Urdu poets to the common reader. So I have before me twenty such booklets, each offering a brief introduction ...
The Guardian

An introduction to the poetry of Lord Byron

Byron was first and foremost a poet. His output, in every conceivable metre, iambs and anapaests, blank verse, hudibrastics and heroic couplets, terzains, quatrains, sixains, rime royal, spenserians ...
Capital Public Radio

Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem 'Introduction to Poetry'

To welcome National Poetry Month, we take a listen to former Poet Laureate Billy Collins read his poem, "Introduction to Poetry." T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. It also happens to ...