To many people's surprise, one of the most popular recent TV reality shows in China has been Chinese Poetry Conference, a classical Chinese poetry competition devoid of any TV stars. What makes the ...

It’s a kind of literary miracle. Fragments of two new poems by Ancient Greek poet Sappho have been discovered, making it possible for us to be among the first people to read these texts for more than ...

Korea and China have a long history of mutual exchanges. Geographical adjacency has made it possible, and far easier, for the two cultures to interact with each other much more than with other groups.

BEIJING, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- A televised poetry competition during the Spring Festival holiday was watched by more people in China than many star-studded soap operas, festive galas and reality shows.

If you ever want to move your child out from the digital world and give them at least a part of your own personal childhood experience, check our list for 9 classic poems for children to memorize. The ...

Julian Peters illustrates a classic poem from American icon Langston Hughes. By Graeme McMillan April is National Poetry Month, and to mark the occasion, Plough Publishing Press is releasing a graphic ...

Photograph by Matzei/Wikimedia Commons. At this time of year Slate has in the past presented classic poems about Christmas and New Year's Day. For 2012, here is a poem set at, and in some sense about, ...

Spring is one of the most popular seasons and a favourite among the writers and poets as its beauty fires up their imagination like no other season. It signifies new life, bringing a lot of happiness ...

Pictures can be poems and vice versa: they're feelings captured in a phrase, a stroke, or an image. Leonardo da Vinci said, "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting ...