Painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon/Courtesy the National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG 293. The first time I read Leigh Hunt's “The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit”—I must have been in college—I ...
F rench poet Siméon doesn't explain what poetry is: he portrays a poem in the making. Arthur's fish, Leon, languishes in his bowl. “Hurry,” his mother says, sailing off to her tuba lesson, “give him a ...
Caution: Spoilers ahead about Dahaad. Filmmaker Karan Bali is very pleased that his grandmother Damyanti Bali’s poem Machli from 1939 is still in circulation. The Hindi poem is featured in the Prime ...