I got to know Jowshan Ara better when I visited her home to interview her husband, Mahbub ul Alam Chowdhury, the poet who ...

She says that there is a time in everyone's life, probably in teens when most people are first drawn to poetry—they adore the sound of it and the music it holds—the rhyme that it offers. It is only ...

Women in Afghanistan are not forbidden from speaking to each other, the Taliban government's morality ministry told AFP on ...

FORCING the front door open, police officers took in the horrifying and bloody ‘slaughterhouse’ crime scene in front of them. Two badly injured, lifeless women’s bodies – ...

In her interview with EL PAÍS, the writer — the first Native American to be honored as United States Poet Laureate — reflects ...

For the second time in eight years, a woman lost the race for the presidency. Despite strong support among women of color, ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

Twelve poets from the “Seeing Things” poetry workshop will showcase their work in celebration of their new anthology, “Seeing ...

Harold Rhenisch has made the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for Song for the Earth and the Water.

Cicely Grace has made the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for There is no neutral way to say I was fourteen.

The famous poem has been a guide for readers from Virginia Woolf to inmates in New Jersey, as Orlando Reade reveals in What ...

This reading list spotlights books by nine Mexican women writers who are shaping the literary scene in Mexico and beyond.