Oct. 31: For litterateur Anupam Kumar, recitation is as much a performing art as dance, music or even theatre. And making the literary circles and the public view the art of recitation for what it is ...

Passwords, logins. Those, we know by heart. They are the keys that open our technological doors, and lock others out. But I’m not sure we still commit beauty to memory; the poetry and even Bible verse ...

Let’s reach beyond our Twitter feeds and show we care about words again Late one night this spring, Justin Snider, an assistant dean at Columbia University in the United States, was riding the uptown ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I approach people in the street and say: “Excuse me for bothering you, do you have a favourite poem? If so, I can try ...

Students expressed themselves through poetry that advocated for peace in their communities, homes and schools. Their poetic expressions were made during the Veterans For Peace 12th annual public ...

Tom Waits’s music has always been a beacon to those with vagabond souls, his inimitably gravelly, smoky, hoarse voice oddly soothing as he croons about the downtrodden and debauched. Thus there’s no ...