First of all, it wasn't even initially part of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was built in the 1870s and 1880s. The poem ...

Alicia Partnoy survived torture and violence as one of thousands of the 'disappeared' during Argentina’s political suppression and government violence in the 1970s. She shares advice with Californians ...

Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is regarded as one of Greece’s major poets and an eminent exponent of romantic ...

Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first ...

What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.

“The ferocious parts of the Psalms,” Lewis writes, “serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness ...

Video clips surfaced showing Jableh city as a deserted wasteland, just as a foreign jihadist had boasted on social media ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Cauleen Smith’s camera tunes into the city’s idioms, inviting us to witness the granular, the unspectacular, to linger with the overlooked, all guided by Los Angeles poet Wanda Coleman’s words. Cozy ...

Where the Time Goes Dept. Judy Collins Turn, Turn, Turns to Poetry The eighty-five-year-old folksinger, who is about to publish a book of poems, chats about her old friends (Leonard Cohen and Lily ...

While Zelensky is the face of Ukraine’s heroism abroad, at home it is General Valery Zaluzhny, the “Iron General” who led the defence of Kyiv at the start of the war.

Before the war, she wrote poetry in Russian and occasional prose ... “When the person I am closest to in the world, a man who is not young, who has bad knees, who is being brave for Ukraine ...