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 ...

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 ...

As the Lunar New Year approaches, many Chinese families clean the front door of their home and hang poetry around it. This is a rich and age-old Chinese tradition, both cultural and religious. Chinese ...

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 ...

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 ...

I would like to add to Fleming Carswell's interesting Correspondence (Nature 411, 885; 2001) about the relevance of poetry to scientists today by mentioning a few of the scientists who in the past ...