Change is indeed the only constant, but does it apply to languages as well? In an era where identity politics often ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

For Pakistani journalist Rana Muhammad Asif, Iqbal is the poet everyone quotes—but no one truly understands ... both as a revivalist and a revolutionary, Mir wrote. “Iqbal once proclaimed that his ...

Urdu found its most powerful expression in poetry (especially ghazals). Poets like Amir Khusrau, Mir Taqi Mir, and Mirza Ghalib elevated the language’s literary prestige. During the Mughal period, the ...

“They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize ...

Poet and professor Donato Martinez prepares for his event on April 10. Martinez's poetry book "Touch the Sky" was published in 2023. (Sofia Hopkins) LBCC students were captivated by poet and professor ...

Death anniversary of classical Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir was observed on Tuesday. Born in Agra in 1723, Mir breathed his last on this day in Lucknow in 1810. Mir Taqi Mir's poetry gave shape to the Urdu ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

The prisoned music of her deathless roses. Leans the warped and clotted plow. The moon rolls up, while far away And thin with sorrow, the sheepdog’s bay Fills the valley with lonely sound. Slow ...