It’s not an animal that resembles an elk and runs quickly. A ghazal is a type of poem. Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic ...

Bahr is Arabic for “sea” but means “meter” when applied to poetry. Zeina Hashem Beck weaves poems of deep longing that feel like whole worlds. This ghazal, a traditional Middle Eastern/Persian/Indian ...

Mirza Ghalib, who died on February 15, 1869, was a powerful, eloquent and erudite poet who investigated and captured life’s experiences and occurrences with capering humour in his enigmatic ghazals.

Shad Naved’s The Ghazal Eros: Lyric Queerness in History is a long-awaited study. This book has been anticipated not only as an important scholarly intervention but also as a distillation of Naved’s ...