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The power of Qasidas and devotional poetry in deepening Ramadan reflections
While core acts of devotion take center stage, qasidas (Islamic odes) and devotional poetry serve as powerful complements, ...
Should Statue of Liberty poem guide US immigration policy? What Americans said in poll
The poem reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of ...
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Ukrainians in front line regions reel from losses, but say hope dies last for them
Into their fourth year of war, Ukrainians living in or near front line regions of their country grapple with their losses and ...
22-word love poem may look simple – but it's deemed one of best ever
The poem, '40 Love' has been hailed on social media as both 'beautiful' and 'genius' with it's unusual layout mimicking a ...
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Seeing China through the eyes of classic Iranian poetry
Diverse elements of Chinese culture and civilization have influenced Persian literature, particularly Persian poetry. Many ...
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16,000 poems and counting: Zip Odes judge sees South Florida through everybody else's eyes
Author and poet Sarah Trudgeon lives in Great Barrington, Mass., but she stays connected to South Florida through poetry: for ...
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Why Lucy Dacus had to destroy her old life to create the album 'Forever Is a Feeling'
Singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus's new album Forever Is a Feeling features music written about "falling in love, falling out of ...
If you don’t like Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, you don’t like music. You should hand your ears back
Anyway: I feel the same way about Bob Dylan ’s Bringing It All Back Home, which turns 60 today. If you don’t like it, you don ...
‘Grass lives next to grass’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on Jnanpith winner Vinod Kumar Shukla’s poetry
To read Shukla is to read not a version of what is already known, but what is constantly being inscribed in and erased from ...
From poems in stone to a chime that plays Loverboy, Vancouver is full of great public art
Vancouver's head of public art, Eric Fredericksen, says that although artist Brady Cranfield's Weekend Chime is conceptually ...
World championships pause to remember young figure skaters and supporters who died in midair collision
The world figure skating championships paused for a tribute to those who died in a plane crash on their way back from a camp ...