Poetry has been labeled a dying art for almost as long as it has existed: It’s not what it used to be, and nobody reads it. Shakespeare’s contemporaries wondered if English could ever equal Latin.

All the sands in the sea and I counted them well. He said he with a grin, “And not one more?” I answered him, “Now you go make sure.” Natalie Merchant’s two-disc album, “Leave Your Sleep,” is a ...

Eleven sijo (traditional poems) will be sent to the moon on a rocket set for blastoff on Jan. 15 carrying a private U.S. lunar lander. The Sejong Cultural Society, a Korean-American non-profit ...

China's educational authorities are eyeing using the songs of the country's hottest pop stars to promote traditional poems among youngsters. Wang Dengfeng, director of the Ministry of Education's ...