Pakistan has a rich and diverse cultural heritage. Pakistanis celebrate their culture through folk music, dance, and festivals. They have a strong appreciation for poetic expression and storytelling. The history of the country comes to life in the splendid architectural detail of centuries-old mosques and forts. After it became part of the expansive Mughal Empire [...]

Poetry, to me, has always been the most difficult event in the speech and debate arena. One of the event’s greatest challenges is to find a poem long enough – or, alternatively, enough poems – to fill the time requirement.
The best options competitors have are using one long poem (which I’d only recommend to a [...]

Learning a foreign language can be enjoyable – but exasperating. Anything you can do to accelerate learning or make language acquisition more enjoyable is a valuable weapon in your learning arsenal. Kathy Steinemann shares a helpful and unique approach to this challenge.

Take a look at the following two sections of text:
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The sky is blue [...]

The poem Hips Don’t Lie represents for me some of the highest quality pop poetry:

Hips Don’t Lie

Ladies up in here tonight
No fighting, no fighting
We got the refugees up in here
No fighting, no fighting

Shakira, Shakira

I never really knew that she could dance like this
She makes a man want to speak [...]

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POETS ARE THE BELL RINGERS of THE SOUL
Poets as a rule are high on adventure

Like wondering bards or prophets today.

Embracing hearts and minds with wisdom

Casting through verse their visions at play.

Poets have their dreams and their nightmares

Of love, life, death, faith and war.

They feel the pain and tragedy of others

Even those they’ve never met before.

They [...]

Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta India. He was a Bengali poet who won the Noble Prize in 1913. He was one of the most influential persons of that time, and even until this day, in introducing to western culture the best of Indian culture, and vice versa. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1988). [...]

So what kind of people enter amateur poetry contests? Here at Eber & Wein Publishing, we have discovered that just about every kind of person in fact enters our contests. We receive poetry from five-year-olds, ninety-five year olds, and of course everyone in between. Our participants are grade school students, college students, tradesmen, working professionals, stay-at-home mothers, farmers, [...]

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Translation of poetry is one of the most difficult and challenging tasks for every translator. According to Robert Frost’s definition, “Poetry is what gets lost in translation”. This statement could be considered as a truthful one to a certain extent because [...]

When you are designing that great bar or lounge you want to set up, the last thing it should ever be is boring. After all, the reason anyone would want to hang out in your bar or lounge, whether its a public place or your private little hideaway just for friends, is because its a [...]