On May 2, 1977, Coleman Barks dreamed he was sleeping on a bluff above the Tennessee River when a ball of light rose off an island across from where he was sitting. In the dream, Barks woke up. The ...

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside of you.” — Rumi A few months back, I got an apricot mini poodle. When meeting him for the first time, I gazed into his eyes and sensed a deep wisdom ...

5 Best Poetry Books On Love That Make Deeply Emotional Gifts Poetry books on love, life and wisdom are an emotional gift which can remind the receiver how thoughtful and caring your intentions are to ...

Rumi, trans. from the Persian by Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz. Everyman’s Library, $14.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-101-90810-5 With millions of copies of the 13th-century Sufi mystic poet’s work sold ...

Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's ...

Love whispers in the quiet spaces between heartbeats, pulling us closer without a word. It blooms not in grand gestures, but in the steady choice to stay through every storm. Love as a sentiment is so ...

Though his English-only translations of the Sufi poet Jelaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) have sold hundreds of thousands of copies, Barks is anything but celebratory in his preface to this new collection: "I ...

Jalāl ud-Dīn Rūmī — one of the most sublime poets in world literature — lived in Konya, in what is now central Turkey, in the 13th century CE. Many Americans who recognize his name became familiar ...