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

From haibun to haiku, ghazals to concrete poems, our poets have been experimenting with form with a serious engagement.

Meanwhile, Seher Fatema Vora, a second-generation Pakistani-American, is drawn to her Pakistani roots through familiar ...

Six songs from Shafi's first album were screened at a private event in Lahore on Thursday evening, allowing guests a glimpse ...

In an article for Deccan Herald, Rahul Bajaj speaks about a recent judgment by the UK Supreme Court, which ruled that the ...

The exhibition runs until April 27 and features rarely seen items from the Arabic and Urdu collections of the ... handwritten Sufi Poetry in the Gujri dialect dating back to 1590 and an artwork ...

These lines from Umrao Jaan aren't just poetry--they are a mirror ... For me, it was a film with Urdu couplets and broken dreams. That was the first time I felt seen. And belonging, I've learned ...

And all of them had a refined taste for music and poetry, steeped perhaps in the tradition of Urdu shayari in that region ... s 'Vertigo', audiences failed to figure out who looked more beautiful in ...

“Very few people are familiar with Urdu literature, even through poetry. There were forms such as the qasida — used to praise someone or a marsiya, a song of sorrow that have faded out,” he say ...

To celebrate National Poetry Month in April, we invited 5 Washington Post photographers to capture nature, and invited 5 ...

“I was just so happy to kind of sleep in, knowing I had nowhere to be. It was just a beautiful, easy day.” At 62, Moore has earned her resilience, drawing from a life filled with trials and ...

Either way, school shouldn’t be the only place for poetry. And learning a poem by heart doesn’t have to be drudgery. It can be a way of holding onto something beautiful, a morsel of verbal ...