The 13th-century Persian poet has become a household name in contemporary America, but few know the name of the scholar who popularized his poems in the West. Since the 1970s, Coleman Barks has been ...

I had never exerted so much energy just to send a text. I wanted to tell the man who had been my guide in Aswan, Egypt, that his kind hospitality, his vulnerability and honesty, his genuine love for ...

A poet is not without honor, except in her own country. Louise Gluck may have won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature, but the best-selling poet in America isn't her, but rather an Iranian guy who's ...