Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. On January 15, 1605, a young Dutch woman, Brechje Spiegels, died suddenly, catching everyone by surprise. A few days earlier her beloved, poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft ...
In the midst of a busy life, in which a priest can barely find time to read his breviary, why on earth should he spend his time reading something as useless as poetry? Because poetry is the purest ...
That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...