Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent ...

by noting that his students insisted on seeing the poem not as a work of literature but as “something that might help to explain why we had ended up where we were”. Milton may have shaped ...

Met at eighteen, in translation, they showed me I wasn’t alone in love’s thrashings ... The gift of songs and poems and ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Johnny began his career as the 15-year-old frontman of the Limerick group Granny's Intentions. After success in Limerick and ...

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

The Good Place' alum also recalled how Harrelson once skipped out on rehearsal to see the Berlin Wall fall in person ...

just essentially making me more comfortable being in the civilian world," he said. Dombrowski leads a program called Verses for Vets, an initiative by Arizona State University that offers veterans the ...

Did you make it? Tell me, Love, are you in the quiet yet?

The bilingual aspect of this book is especially noteworthy with respect to alphabets: the “original” poems are transliterated, which allowed me to sound out Kurdish words that felt both familiar and ...

But now, auto exhaust cripples the air as my grey somnambulant bus draws near. Eliot Khalil Wilson is the author of three books of poems, including most recently the audio-chapbook The Lunatic’s Left ...

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