says Stalina. For the collective, poetry is inseparable from politics. Through their Facebook page and website, Poetria has ...

She says that there is a time in everyone's life, probably in teens when most people are first drawn to poetry—they adore the sound of it and the music it holds—the rhyme that it offers. It is only ...

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

Warfare, literature, education, and politics were long the purview of men before these five notable Latin American women made their voices heard. Many of them defied societal gender norms, facing ...

Maintaining the ability to be shocked by heartless cruelty is what makes us human, and the only thing, at times, which keeps the flame of hope alive.

In Georgian culture, the echoes of democracy have always reverberated, from the ancient mountainside councils to the bold ...

Ramakaushalyan Ramakrishnan’s Poem of the Wind is made of fragments. We dip in and out of moments and scenes from a theatre ...

I begin the Art Diary with exhibitions by artists with whom I have some former connections, starting with some I have ...

I was struck by how Giovanni used figurative language and imagery from a recent trip to Africa to uplift the powerful nature of being a Black woman. Her poems became a gateway, leading me to other ...

The artist Kathryn Andrews began to develop the idea that has become the Judith Center during the 2016 US presidential ...

Bridport Literary Festival kicks off this Sunday and an array of famous faces are set to attend including Wayne Sleep and Dame Harriet Walter.

This week's Jefferson Award winner is a Berkeley woman who has promoted child literacy for four decades, as host of a community TV show encouraging young poets.