The new poetry collection from Krystal Languell, Systems Thinking with Flowers, uses baseball as a backdrop to explore some very big ideas. Krystal’s fourth book, Systems Thinking With Flowers, is the ...

In the rich tradition of Persian literature, one poet stands out for his revolutionary approach to spiritual storytelling. Farid ud-Din Attar, a 12th-century mystic from Nishapur, did not merely write ...

On The Spring that Feeds the Torrent by St. John of the Cross, translated by Rhina Espaillat. Mystical religious poetry is notoriously difficult to translate. It plumbs the depths of a particular ...

Well-known Turkish musician and scholar Latif Bolat performs. Bolat, who specializes in Sufi music, has performed in more than a dozen countries. He has recorded soundtrack music for George Lucas and ...

(RNS) — Omid Safi's new book 'Radical Love' offers a reminder to Muslims and non-Muslims alike: You can't divorce Rumi's mystical poetry from Islam. (RNS) — Omid Safi’s latest project was a labor of ...

Ever heard of Wallace Stevens? If you love poetry or American literature, of course you have. Me, I remember that he was a conservative Republican and an insurance company executive, and I remember ...

Nelly Sachs, honored on Monday with a Google Doodle, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. The award came just two decades after her first volume of poetry, In den Wohnungen des Todes (In the ...

SEHWAN / DADU: Scores of devotees continued to perform dhamal day and night in the courtyard of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar’s shrine in Sehwan on the second day of the great Sufi Saint’s Urs on Sunday.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky David Madacsi has an ambiguous relationship with the ocean. His home along the Mystic ...