Re: “Unfortunately, it’s National Poetry Month,” by Christopher de Vinck, April 20 Opinion. I was struck by the negative tone of the subject in this essay.

“It is never owed to anyone as a right or a matter of desert or justice. It always, therefore, transcends the realm of strict ...

The poem goes on to suggest that once the CAA becomes law, these silent bystanders will finally wake up and come to see that India has become a living “hell” and a “slaughterhouse.” ...

A literary prodigy, Mr. Shapiro was already publishing poems in European and South African journals by the age of 10. At 14, he published a poem in The Antioch Review, his first in the United States.