Ahmed, who is from Lahore, has had many conversations with his friends and family about the ... has curated the largest online library of Urdu poetry under the banner Rekhta.

He said, “Every time I come here, I feel like I’m speaking among old friends. The warmth of the Delhi audience reminds me why I began writing poetry in the first place, to express feelings we ...

Love Longing Loss In Urdu Poetry, a comprehensive and insightful collection of Urdu couplets of Meer, Ghalib, Dagh, Momin, Faiz, and several others. Saraf says sarcasm and irony are essential ...

Ramu Kharel in Karachi on his way for a tv interview about his emergency medicine work in Nepal in which he fluently recited Urdu poetry. Photos: ABDULLAH ZAHID/SAPAN NEWS On a usual bustling March ...

For National Poetry Month, Oregon's poet laureate is bringing ... it's a poem she thinks her kids might like, and she's gotten friends to call in, too. TUCKER: We all text about it and chat ...

Since 2015, @poetryisnotaluxury has become one of the most visible and widely followed sources of poetry on the Internet ... of little bits of poems with my friends and sometimes it’s just ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... she uses the fragments of old poetry to “shore against my ruins”.

Try the complicity of poetry to get you through the day or night. It has no contraindications and might surprise you in its impact. There’s no telling the new friends you might meet through your ...