It's National Poetry Month, and for the fifth edition of Poetic License, we decided to celebrate short poems from poets across Canada. In these illustrated videos, you'll hear from emerging talent, ...

The petroglyph contains verses from a poem by the Persian poet Sheikh Muslih od-Din Sadi Shirazi, said Iranian archaeologist Abolhassan Atabaki. This poem was probably carved on this rock centuries ...

Born in 1934 in Basra, Iraq, Youssef has recently settled in London after a peripatetic adult existence. These poems drawn from his 30 books are organized by date and place of composition: Baghdad ...

BEIJING - Beijing's Niujie Mosque has many treasures: a five-century-old Koran, a gilded wooden plate engraved with an emperor' s order and foreign sheik tombs from hundreds of years ago. But the most ...