Haleh Liza Gafori is an Iranian American translator, poet, performance artist, and composer born in New York City. Her book ...

What poetry readers tend to love most about this work is Rumi’s affinity for storytelling. Gorgeous imagery and lyrical words abound, yes, but this poem also reads like a story—a love story.

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

Beckett churchyard. She is one of the best poets in history. You have surely read quotes by Rumi, an Islamic scholar in Greater Iran who wrote in Persian and occasionally Greek during the 13 th ...

This is a six-volume poem regarded by many Sufis as second in importance only to the Qur'an. Rumi conceived of music, poetry and dancing as a way to get closer to God. It was from these ideas he ...

As opera seeks to redefine itself, the idea of music-drama as meditation is a potentially powerful one. Music can sustain ...

In his poem Our Death is Our Wedding with Eternity, Rumi writes: “The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house. This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes; It is not in the juice ...

The Mawlana Rumi Review is an academic journal (est. 2010) devoted to the poetry, life, thought, and legacy of Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), the Islamic Sufi poet who authored some 60,000 lines of ...

One of the highlights of Beyoncé's massive "Renaissance" tour was having her daughter, Blue Ivy, join her on stage as a ...

Beyoncé spent some quality family time at the wedding of her former personal assistant over the weekend. The “Single Ladies” ...