The café’s name is the nickname of a singer, oud and lute player, composer, poet, and teacher Abu l-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn Nafi, who lived in what is now Iraq, Northern Africa and Andalusia during the ...

But perhaps his least-known endeavor was as a poet. Kilmer was a writer of poetry for much of his adult life, having begun dabbling in the form in his twenties as he studied at The Juilliard ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Pete Hegseth's new "kafir" tattoo sits just below another inked phrase across his bicep. In Arabic, the term historically refers to someone who does not believe in Islam. Derived from the root K ...

The viral track, “Sawt Safiri El Bolboli (Qissa)“, is actually a poem by Abdul-Malik Al-Asma’i, performed as a song by Ahmed El Qatane in 2012. And guess what? It’s about the whistling ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture the full picture.

John Cooper Clarke is nicknamed the punk poet and the bard of Salford John Cooper Clarke is about to become the first poet to headline a UK arena, and is responsible for the lyrics to one of the ...

Growing up as a native Arabic speaker, I always had a deep love and admiration for the language. From an early age, I studied its rich sections – grammar, poetry, prose and classical literature.

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

Amman, March 20 (Petra) -- As the world marked World Poetry Day, a quiet unease settled among Arab poets, a sense that the currents of their art were shifting, perhaps drifting away from familiar ...