“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 ...

ONE would feel happier about the future of poetry on the stage were it not for the defensiveness of those who proclaim it. Poetry had used the theatre and the theatre had used poetry for thousands 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 ...