Dr. Nagaphani Sarma honored with Padma Shri for reviving Avadhanam and enriching Sanskrit and Telugu literature with his ...

Sarma has performed over 2,000 Avadhanams in his 52-year career, establishing Avadhana Saraswathi Peetham to promote the art ...

In a moment of immense pride for the literary, spiritual, and cultural community, Guruji Dr. Brahmasri Madugula Nagaphani ...

The Avadhani must not only compose metrical poetry instantaneously but also memorize and reproduce it without the aid of any written reference. This challenging intellectual exercise demands ...

The Avadhani must not only compose metrical poetry instantaneously but also memorize and reproduce it without the aid of any written reference. This challenging intellectual exercise demands ...

I wrote my first poem when I was about seven years old ... So, my earliest poems were structured, metrical, and ting for hours on a puzzle, trying to uncover what meanings it could arrive at ...

Dante’s poem is many things ... He injects just enough variation and metrical substitutions to give the feel of natural speech rhythms without ever losing the undertow of Dante’s metrical ...

Four local high school students competed in the Poetry Out Loud 2025 El Dorado Finals at Imagination Theater on Feb. 6. Each contestant recited two poems of their choosing from ...

a “typical metrical forms and narrative structure of the ballad by having them write ballads based on comic, even outrageous source material.” Another lesson covers the Tone Map, “As students learn to ...

The prophets were masters of poetry, oratory, metrical verse, rhyme, and fluency. The tradition of poetry originates from the world-famous sanctuary of Dodona; the prophets of the oracles and sacred ...