I don't know." Ask a Persian? "Why no, my friend! I hate poetry! It's so antiquated!" "Oh. Do you know any good poems?" "Yes, ...

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

In 2019, Brydon was able to translate his love of The Boss into his role in Blinded By The Light, a British comedy-drama directed by Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham), inspired by journalist ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel ...

Snapshots of life Poems are multi-splendored things. What poetry is doesn’t matter as much as what it does. Expectations and perceptions differ from reader to reader, from need to need.

I encountered this in the warmth of the Mediterranean sun, with my elbows sunken into the fine sand as I immersed myself in one of Rumi’s poetry books. Despite being grotesquely misunderstood in ...

In one of the opening texts of Nour, an anthology of poetry and imagery by Mustafa, the Canadian poet, singer, songwriter and filmmaker offers a poignant contemplation of his relationship to the ...

In retaliation, Al-Dahnā wielded the power of poetry, and the vigor of the Arabic language, to voice her reasons for seeking a divorce. At a time in Islamic history when poetry held immense ...

Poetry has a way of nudging sense and meaning inside a stream of words, the way water runs under the desert sand—to green an oasis”. In a sequence of poems interspersed with prose texts, Tamam’s book ...

Poetry initially provided a way to skirt around the state's restrictions but eventually the censors caught up. "The Syrian dictatorship was a very classic one," Almadhoun explains.