It’s verse of a very particular kind. Barks was born in 1937 and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He received his Ph.D. in English literature and published his first book of poetry, “The ...

Poetry Month is an initiative of Red Room Poetry, the only organisation in Australia that consistently commissions poets and ...

Some of this poetry was written by caliphs themselves—the Caliph al-Walid ibn Yazid (d. 744), for instance, composed some of the finest (and most scandalous) bacchic verse in the entire canon: ...

Poetry – the lyrical, romantic kind, the type that extols the mystical life and that speaks to universal human concerns – remains very important within Arab-Islamic culture.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poet shaped by early heartbreak and political disillusionment, blended romance and revolution in his work.

Using metaphors — saying one thing is like another — is a way of finding unexpected connections in the world, poet Allan Wolf ...

A good fit equals good Muslim, a bad fit equals bad Muslim." Chapter 11 shares the title of the book, and here we learn of an event that would go on to make Hassan realise his Muslimness was ...

St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the ...

The family of a Muslim woman in Middlesbrough who was well known for her Islamic poetry books have paid tribute to her after she sadly died last week. Safia Razzaq, 79, passed away on Sunday, June ...

Muslim Child: Understanding Islam Through Stories and Poems Rukhsana Khan. Albert Whitman & Company, $16.99 (104pp) ISBN 978-0-8075-5307-7 ...