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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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

Rumi Laskar Bora, a name synonymous with courage and literary brilliance in Assamese literature, has dared to tread paths ...

Are there three children who've collectively logged more private air travel than Blue Ivy Carter, Rumi Carter and Sir Carter? "My kids come with me everywhere I go," Beyoncé recently revealed ...

Challenging new opera from Rolf Hind, inspired by the poems of Sufi mystic Rumi. premieres in London after appearing at Copenhagen Opera Festival ...

She and husband Jay-Z share Blue Ivy, 12, and 7-year-old twins Sir and Rumi. The singer didn't want Blue Ivy to join her onstage during her tour, but Blue "earned it." Beyoncé Knowles-Carter said ...