The back cover of Ko-Hua Chen’s “Decapitated Poetry,” translated into English by Wen-Chi Li and Colin Bramwell, reads: “‘Decapitated Poetry’ was the first explicitly queer book of poems published in ...

The second day of the 10th edition of Jashn-e-Rekhta saw a mushaira by acclaimed names, including Wasim Barelvi, Javed Akhtar ...

Poetry in Iran is not just documentation of history but an influential component of Iranian culture. Photo by Pixabay from Pexels. In ancient history, the words of a prophet were highly valued in ...

When senior Lucy Chuang learned of the March 16 shootings in Atlanta, she opened her poetry journal. In the days that followed, she wrote several poems dedicated to the Asian women who were killed.

Diversity is collaborating with Salem State University professor January Gill O’Neil for a book signing and reading of her ...

Thirty years ago, during my second year of teaching humanities at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (1985-86), I created an elective two-semester course called “Lyric” that began with ...

Students at the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh (ULAB) crowded into a packed classroom on a winter morning on Sunday, November 30, awaiting the start of a program that would be part interview, ...

For about as long as there have been hot peppers and writing implements, people have been indulging in the twin pleasures of eating gut-wrenchingly spicy things and then going and telling everyone ...

The poet Constantine Cavafy was a cosmopolitan by both birth and inclination. His parents were Constantinople Greeks of what was then known as “good family”; by the time their youngest son was born in ...

Since 1926, February has marked the observance and celebration of black history in the United States — first with a week-long celebration scheduled to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln ...