By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Both a valentine to Iranian cinema and an absurdist look at Winnipeg, Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin's comedy is ...

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed ...

Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

Patna: As CBSE and CISCE board examinations draw near, experts advise students to prioritize proper nutrition, sufficient ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a valentine poem.

Rumi I woke up to the sharp whistle of a goods train in the early hours of the morning. The railway track runs ...

Around this time, he wrote many poems for children including ‘Saare jahan se achha ... He was deeply influenced by Rumi, the noted 13th-century poet. Over the years, India’s understanding of Iqbal has ...

There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, the first English translation of those poems, starts with selections from A Girl’s Mind, published in 1939 when she was 21, and ends with poems ...

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, ...