Spoken Stage is an organization that promotes the art of performance storytelling and spoken word poetry in Pakistan. It was created by Mariam Paracha in 2013, because she felt that there was no platform for youth in Karachi to express themselves, so she created a
THAAP Series Poets and Perspectives: Madho Lal Hussein 6 PM, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2016 43-G, Gulberg III, Lahore THAAP is organizing a series of events on mystic poets of South Asia from a variety of literary traditions. The primary objective is to highlight the work of the
Poetry Featured: ” You live in lovely orbs” from Rococo and Other Worlds (Karachi: Aaj Ki Kitaben, 2000) by Afzal Ahmed Syed ‘When I was born my grandmother cried’ by Sana Rizwan Gondal
On Tuesday, the 3rd of May 2016, at 11:45 a page on Facebook called Infinite Entropy shared a picture of an unshaven leg along with a poem. The poem currently has 44,100 likes and 10,800 shares. “When a man tells me I’m beautiful I don’t believe
Afzal Ahmed Syed reciting a poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz for mediastudies.asia. Recording and photo: Aamir Khadim. Karachi 19th May 2016. English translation: Landscape The roadside shadows, houses, walls, the rim of rooftops; over the rooftops the moon bared her breast, softly like a
