His poetry often explores themes of love, identity, nature, and social issues, reflecting the complexities of modern life ...

Excerpted with permission from The Essential Ghalib, translated from the Urdu by Anisur Rahman, HarperCollins India.

Renowned poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to pay tribute to Mirza Ghalib to ...

The album, titled, ‘Wonder’ was released on the 25th of December 2023 by Ghanaian spoken word artiste and poet, Nana ...

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India’s former Prime Minister, was revered for his oratory prowess and poetic flair. A BJP leader, he ...

Jaun Elia, a renowned Urdu poet, philosopher, and scholar, is celebrated for his emotionally intense, philosophically ...

It has been many years, many publications, numerous awards, and seven poetry collections later since my poem, “Queen Anne’s Lace,” was published by The Christian Science Monitor, a poem for ...

Austin Frink is the musician, songwriter, and recording artist behind Bastion Rose from Bloomington, Indiana. His literary ...

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.  I don’t remember ...

David Groff, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and educator, discusses the need for poets to embrace entrepreneurial ...

The Center Did Not Hold About 100 years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called “The Second Coming” which has become ...

It gives a vivid presentation of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as poetry, calligraphy, seal-cutting ...