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Rakhshanda Jalil transports Zehra Nigah’s wonderful reconstruction of women’s domesticity in English

The Siasat Daily 27 Jan 2025
It is a seething comment on much-revered motherhood by Zehra, the first to carve out a niche in the male-centric world of Urdu poetry. Her evocative poetry, wrapped in a conversational idiom that ...
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From ‘Burger-i-Karachi’ to Kattar Karachi — Talha Anjum’s journey in his own words

Dawn 27 Jan 2025
... that they or someone they knew got into Urdu poetry, or taught themselves the language, after getting into Talha’s music, whose lyrics are often peppered with verses and references from Urdu poetry.
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THE ICON INTERVIEW

Dawn 26 Jan 2025
... that they or someone they knew got into Urdu poetry, or taught themselves the language, after getting into Talha’s music, whose lyrics are often peppered with verses and references from Urdu poetry.
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Poetry from Daily Life: Dinner with friends, serving a poem as the prayer

Springfield News-Leader 26 Jan 2025
My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heather Lende, who lives in Haines, Alaska ... No free verse for us. But, oh, I am so happy that I can choose to pray with poetry now, and that I live among people who encourage such things.
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Review: The Story of Eve by Zehra Nigah

Hindustan Times 24 Jan 2025
When poetry is translated, some, like Scottish novelist and historian James Buchan, wonder, “Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice”.
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A Plea for Heroic Poets

The Atlantic 22 Jan 2025
The power of Mandelstam’s poetry, a bell pealing in the muffle of a pea-soup fog, arises from the harmony of his words and actions ... Mandelstam’s adamant integrity or his poetry ... Poetry is an act of hope].
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‘Good Girl’ is a harrowing portrait of family, fury and exile

The Spokesman-Review 19 Jan 2025
The novel and the poetry collection are different creatures, of course, with their own particular strengths, but in both prose and verse, Aber touches the heart of a young woman struggling to find herself in the heat of clashing cultures.
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Sheikha Bodour inaugurates 1st Sharjah Literature Festival

Urdu Point 18 Jan 2025
Emarati Artist and calligrapher Abdullah Alastad presented a live artistic performance on stage showcasing the arts of Arabic calligraphy, accompanied by a poetic narration by poet Zigzag Ghanem, who ...
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Local View: What, no poetry at the presidential inauguration?

Duluth News Tribune 17 Jan 2025
Regardless of poetry’s Homeric arc from “the rosy figure of dawn” to any of the latest insomnia-curing volumes of verse, the prohibition of an inaugural poem at a presidential inauguration is not a partisan issue.
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Wordle Help, Hints & Clues for Today, January 17

Coming Soon 17 Jan 2025
“Definitely not poetry.” ... with poetry ... The hint, “Definitely not poetry,” directly contrasts the flowery or rhythmic nature of verse with the straightforwardness of prose.
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AP PHOTOS: Scrawled on walls of Assad’s prisons, graffiti express fears, loves of tormented Syrians

Wtop 17 Jan 2025
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on his cell wall — an expression of pain and love amid his torment ... Some quote poetry.
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AP PHOTOS: Scrawled on walls of Assad's prisons, graffiti express fears, loves of tormented Syrians

Beaumont Enterprise 17 Jan 2025
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, surrounded by death and torture, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on his cell wall -– an expression of pain and love.
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Giving the Canal a Grand new look

China Daily 16 Jan 2025
There, he encounters famous US writers like F ... For Hong Kong novelist Ma Chiahui, who is well-versed in ancient Chinese poetry, the city of Yangzhou during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) is the place to which he dreams of traveling back in time ... 1/6 Next.
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Modernised Scarecrows On The Rise

Kashmir Observer 16 Jan 2025
Representational Photo. By Mudasir Ali. We all might know about scarecrows ... A well-known influential saint of Kashmir, Sheikh-ul-Alam, shared his insights through poetry. His crafted verses offer profound wisdom, relevant to present circumstances.
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‘Life is short, art is long’: the couple who poured their grief into collecting child portraits

The Observer 15 Jan 2025
When Yannick and Ben Jakober’s daughter died aged 19, they poured their grief into art ... Many did not live to adulthood ... As a child, she had been “a sensitive little girl with a real sense of poetry”, who could invent fluent verses off the cuff ... Alamy ... .

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