Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

Rochester artist Ayub HajiOmar has built a career weaving images with Islamic verse. His latest commission was a series of ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The much-anticipated Faiz Festival commenced at the Alhamra Arts Council on Friday, drawing a large audience of literature and art enthusiasts. The opening ceremony featured prominent personalities, ...

After a slew of executive orders came down from the Trump administration over the last few weeks, in Massachusetts this week, Governor Maura Healey issued one of her own, creating the position of a ...

Rekhta, a prominent Indian website dedicated to promoting the Urdu language, is facing backlash for presenting renowned poets in comic book character roles.Recently, the platform shared images of ...

The Country Without a Post Office (1997) in particular, is a deeply evocative and politically charged collection of poetry that grapples with the devastation in Kashmir during the 1990s insurgency, ...

Recently, the platform shared images of famous Urdu poets reimagined as superheroes ... Allama Muhammad Iqbal as Iron Man, Faiz Ahmed Faiz as Captain America, and Junoon Elias as Doctor Strange.

Calligraphy is one of the most stark and straightforward forms of artistic tenor, hence an anonymous person describes it as: “More powerful than all poetry ... were other famous penmen of ...