Ghazals

The Kaleidoscope Of Love: Moving Colors And Shapes In Rumi's Lyric Poetry

Fatemeh Keshavarz | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Mysticism, Ghazals, Islamic-Mysticism, Islam, Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Rumi Love Poetry, Slidepollajax, Rumi Poetry, Poetry, Religion News
Fatemeh Keshavarz

For Rumi, love was a kind of eventful flight, a journey heavenward. But we are not given the nature of the journey nor the location of the heavens.

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Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anna Akhmatova, Ghazals, Marilyn Hacker, Lesbian Poetry, Formalist Poetry, Sonnets, Kateb Yacine, Gay and Lesbian Literature, Barack Obama, Poetry, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Arab-Americans, Islam, Arabs, Books News
Anis Shivani

Marilyn Hacker, who splits her time between Paris and New York, is one of our greatest exponents of poetry written in traditional forms, using sonnets...

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