Why Israelis and Palestinians should read each other’s poetry
Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are…
Nikki Giovanni, poet and civil rights activist, dies at 81
Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s who was dubbed “the Princess…
Amanda Gorman delivers new verse, reclaiming ‘patriot’ at DNC
CHICAGO — There’s an old political saw: You campaign in poetry and govern in prose.That took on a more literal meaning Wednesday night as Amanda Gorman,…