Having met lions only from a distance in zoos, I did not consider that in the wild they can carry the scent of the dead prey they have recently consumed, and thereby stink. Poems can give us new ...

For fear of finding something worse. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s ...

Your head is warm with thine And cannot fly Eclectic shadows that display the sky Listen to the wild rose of the old man's sight This is the beginning of the first poem composed by a new artificial ...

The Lion and the Antler is, in many ways, a path breaking book because it literally creates, singlehandedly, the genre of queer poetry in India. Queer poetry has evolved from the beat generation, and ...

In London's Trafalgar Square, four lions sit at the base of Nelson's Column. But starting today, there will be a fifth. Google Arts & Culture and designer Es Devlin have created a public sculpture for ...

Lehmann’s poem Emperor Mao and the Sparrows channels Chairman Mao and his infamous decree to exterminate sparrows (among other pests) from China because they ate too many crop seeds. The ludicrous ...

India has never had a tradition of queer poetry, and in many ways, this collection of poems is a first. Through his feeling, his passion for life, his passionate awareness of death and the view he ...