Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war ...

This song, sung again and again through my childhood, gave me more than musicality—it gave me moral imagination.

Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...

Mabel Segun, author of children’s books and Nigeria’s first female table tennis champion, died on 6 March 2025 aged 95.

Ghazal baithaks are being embraced by Gen Z who are craving slowness, aesthetics, and tradition Imagine a small stage, no ...

These factors combine to paint a picture where poetry is on its deathbed and struggling for breath. As a young person in ...

Dylan is the Picasso of popular music. His ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ speaks more powerfully to what it feels like to be alive in ...

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 ...

From haibun to haiku, ghazals to concrete poems, our poets have been experimenting with form with a serious engagement. Ghazals included here are embellished with words from the original Urdu or ...

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 to tackle the monotony of lockdown. “We just felt like the ...

“We didn’t just want classic sonnets – we wanted spoken word, lyrics, ghazals, Persian poetry ... means passengers don’t have time to read long passages, making poetry an ideal form of artistic ...