Poetry on stage — or poetic drama — is a natural extension of poetry on the page. The ancient Greeks wrote their great tragedies and comedies in verse, as did the Romans. Medieval morality plays such ...

“The first is the voice of the poet talking to himself—or to nobody. The second is the voice of the poet addressing an audience, whether large or small. The third is the voice of the poet when he ...

For poetry-dramatic poetry above all-is no more the vision of a life that is dead than it is a criticism of the life that now is. Rather it is interpretation-life itself got into perspective, so that ...

The Ensemble Theatre’s Act One Young Professionals celebrate National Poetry Month with their 7th Annual Poetry Event entitled: Drama-try[Tree]: A Dramatic Night of Poetry. Dramatry is a night of ...

goad me to read the Kalma, the Purana. That’s from a devotional poem by Peero, a courtesan who fled the kothis of 19th-century Lahore, driven by love for a man from another faith, the Sikh mystic Guru ...

The national finals of the children’s Mashramani competition continued yesterday with the calypso and dramatic poetry competitions at the National Cultural Centre. First place finisher in the 8-10 ...