#Poetry

flytigz

flytigzzzz

defining heterosexual musicthe key components of heterosexual music are:-covering a previously popular song by putting all its charm in the trash and making it with the same old samples-this ugly

Colleen Farrell, MD

colleenmfarrell

I’m thinking about how we can write up our work with @MedHumChat for an academic publication. Would love to see other examples of pubs on twitter chats! Would appreciate links

Persian Poetics

PersianPoetics

Meet Coleman Barks, the man responsible for nearly every 'Rumi quote' you've seen. Coleman hasn't studied Islam, Sufism, or Persian in academia or traditional settings, he doesn't even know Persian!

Indian History

IndianHistory0

Urdu poets slavishly imitated the muslim vice of glorifying pre-pubescent young boys in relationship with young men.Some even justified liking the same boy post-pubertyNajmuddin Abru wrote "There is no pleasure

Brown Sugar - Women are born not worn

Sugary_Trickery

I’ve blocked two people recently, one (non GC) commenting on every single audio, asking me to audio everything posting his videos and poetry to my tag, every day I got

Conor Dube

conordube

A lazy Sunday morning, so a thread on one of my favorite pre-Islamic poems, the famous poem of praise by al-Nābigha to the Ghassānid king ʿAmr. 1/ The opening evokes

R.B. Lemberg

RB_Lemberg

Inspired by the quoted conversation with @vogelbeere and the photograph of "Le Guin's desk" that is going around, I am sharing an archival photograph of Ursula K. Le Guin at

Persian Poetics

PersianPoetics

Thread: The Orientalizing of Moulana RumiMany of you may be familiar with the 'Rumi quotes' that circulate the internet. What if I told you the vast majority of them are

Sitara Parker

Sitara_Parker

Part of the reason why I never pursued publishing any of longish ramblings as books is the terms publishers offer writers. Esp. first time authors. You read one of those

Liz Garton Scanlon

LGartonScanlon

Just a reminder that I'm writing a haiku everyday this month in honor of National Poetry Month (and, frankly, as a survival skill) and you are so welcome to join

polina

gravewhistle

thread of my poetry/written pieces! “a letter to wall” this is my most recent poem. it was partially born out of another written piece of mine that i’m also

Kyla Wazana Tompkins

kwazana

Okay. so: how does this happen?https://twitter.com/kwazana/status/1300397553603604481 First, repair. Whatever else be sure that the faculty of color/black faculty who work with you are tired. If they have checked out, it’s

Niyati Bhat

artsniffer

A thread on the Shair-e-Kashmir, the poet of Kashmir, Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor. Transformed Kashmiri language and poetry: brought the language of the common folk to the fore. T. Raina: He

BadmASH⁷ ☠️

LittleOne1_

Bts as Urdu poetry~A Thread@BTS_twt میں تو کہتی ہوں یونہی رہنے دو درہم برہمخوب لگتی ہے تیری زلف پریشاں ہو کر...!Translation: Let the strand of your hair be tangledIt's beautiful

maya

MayaCantTweet

In honor of all this early 2010s revival I’m going to look through my tumblr account I’m going through my drafts so I started at the very bottom and it’s

Roy G. Guzmán

catrachxs

Many poems in my book CATRACHOS take place in Miami. This is a book about growing up in Miami. But while Miami gets depicted as a city of fun and