From left: North High students Molly Racsko, Nina Phillips, Lenor Levy, Clara Sarfati and Daisy Korman competed at the annual French Poetry Competition at Hofstra University. Fifteen students from ...

Modern French poetry is unique in the boldness and creativity of its experiments in form and genre, from classical verse to vers libre, from calligrammes to prose poems and poésie sonore. This ...

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Javed Akhtar is off to Paris to release a French translation of his poems. He speaks to Subhash K Jha. Javed Saab, you must be the first poet from the Indian film industry to have the poems translated ...

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