This week's naming of a new U.S. poet laureate reminds us how this literary form can foster wonder, understanding, and uplift ...

This is how, for the last three or four years, abstract ideas, words, sentences and poems found themselves jotted down in physical and digital pages by poet Srividya Sivakumar. This led to her new ...

Against the backdrop of southern Oman’s lush mountains, men in traditional attire chant ancient poems in an ancient language, fighting to keep alive a spoken tradition used by just two per cent of the ...

Against the backdrop of southern Oman's lush mountains, men in traditional attire chant ancient poems in an ancient language, fighting to keep alive a spoken tradition used by just 2% of the ...

With poetry and chants, Omanis strive to preserve ancient language In the misty highlands of southern Oman, where jagged peaks cradle the sky, a fading language clings to life through poetry. Under a ...

Sitting under a tent, poet Khalid Ahmed al-Kathiri recites the verses, while men clad in robes and headdresses echo back his words in the vast expanse. "Jibbali poetry is a means for us to preserve ...

Salalah (Oman) (AFP) – Against the backdrop of southern Oman's lush mountains, men in traditional attire chant ancient poems in an ancient language, fighting to keep alive a spoken tradition used by ...

Against the backdrop of southern Oman's lush mountains, men in traditional attire chant ancient poems in an ancient language, fighting to keep alive a spoken tradition used by just two percent of the ...