Rumi was a thirteenth-century poet and scholar. He spent his life illuminating minds and writing gorgeous prose and love quotes that we all still enjoy reading and sharing today. His best work has 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 ...

If there is one poet who knows the power of words, it's Rumi. His poems, mostly translated, have captured every emotion ...

(RNS) What do the 20th-century American Catholic writers Flannery O’Connor and Frank O’Hara have to do with Rumi, the 13th-century Persian Muslim poet? For Brad Gooch, who has written biographies of ...

What does it take to become a successful poet today? Basically, a miracle. Books of poetry, after all, rarely sell. A few thousand copies are considered more than respectable by most publishers. A few ...