Category: Arts
Poem: Whom I Write For
I write for the young man, demented, who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima; I write for Nasser and Ben Gurion; For Krushchev and…
When Open Palm, Tree Stump and Carpet Spoke
by Arjumand Faisel at Gallery 6: After displaying 90 paintings on diverse subjects for the…
Poem: ‘Birthday’ by Patricia Smith
On this bed of chilled steel, I am the morning’s work,your project after coffee and,…
Poem: Passenger Deck
Now we are on the ferry we flew to drive to,It’s enormous engines vibrating Every…
Henry Miller on Becoming a Writer: “No Daring is Fatal”
If you are an artist, that means that you are denuding yourself more and more, that by the time you die you are stark naked and your bowels turned inside out. — Henry Miller
Poem: Yeh Dooriyan (These Distances)
Surendriya Rao: “I am an American poet of Indian origin. I heard ghazals sung from a young age, but never thought of them as poetry.”
A Palestinian Photographer Reflects on One Year of Life and Death in Gaza
Not all of Alghorra’s photos depict despair, plentiful as it is. In one photograph, a Palestinian teacher is seen drawing on a whiteboard in a makeshift classroom built under a tent.
On the Myth that Arabic Translations Merely Preserved Greek Literature
What is less well-known is that the point of translating foreign works was not to preserve them but to build on them.
What The Photographer Who’s Taken Hundreds Of Philosopher Portraits Really Thinks Of Philosophers
Steve Pyke is a renowned portrait photographer. He has published ten books, including the award-winning I Could Read the Sky.
Poem: ‘Moment’
A poetic expression penned by Irshad Salim in the Summer of 2020 –while in Islamabad:..
What is Poetry?
Poet and artist Gozo Yoshimasu defines what poetry is via Basho, Walter Benjamin, Paul Klee, smoke, Zen philosophy, and handwriting.
