It’s not an animal that resembles an elk and runs quickly. A ghazal is a type of poem. Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic ...
His soulful renditions of ghazals, or traditional love poems, were featured on the soundtracks of hit Bollywood movies and moved generations of Indians. By Suhasini Raj and John Yoon Suhasini Raj ...
Bahr is Arabic for “sea” but means “meter” when applied to poetry. Zeina Hashem Beck weaves poems of deep longing that feel like whole worlds. This ghazal, a traditional Middle Eastern/Persian/Indian ...