When David L. Harrison asked a number of us to write a column about “Poetry from Daily Life,” I thought of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: He draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...

Nithya Mariam John’s short, crisp verses have the sweetness of elayada, the salty-spicy tang of cut mango and the freshness of lacy appams at sunrise. Poet, translator and assistant professor of ...

“Sometimes the kitchen is a dark bottomless well; it never cries enough, it has a charmed life of its own and will not die till we do.” Thus goes a line from Dhiruben Patel’s Kitchen Poems, a poetry ...

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After finding fans among cookery and literary enthusiasts (including the Naipauls), novelist Dhiruben Patel’s kitchen poems land a Marathi translation. After finding fans among cookery and literary ...

With BV Bharathi’s Kitchen Poems, Kannada women’s writing has come full circle. It is 50 years since they criticised women’s writing as kitchen writing—Adigemane Sahitya—and Bharathi’s book of kitchen ...

Corsair has acquired an anthology by British poetry collective Malika’s Poetry Kitchen as part of its new poetry list. Sarah Castleton acquired world English language rights for Too Young, Too Black, ...

Food and poetry share an intimate connection, merging flavors and words to evoke emotions and memories. Just as ingredients blend in a recipe, words harmonize in verse to describe the essence of ...

TROY, N.Y. – Fifteen people who recently took part in the NYS Writers Institute Community Writers Workshop will complete their poetry course with a public reading at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 8, at Troy ...