In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of ...

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 ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...

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 ...

Scientific literature tends to treat the mind and body as separate entities, but humanistic works capture the psychological effects of cancer—loneliness, grief and anxiety. By narrating the emotional ...

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 ...

He used to take part in peaceful demonstrations on behalf of free speech. Now, poet Maung Saungkha leads his own rebel group on the battle against Myanmar's military junta.

In the protests over the R.G. Kar murder case, there is a need to take a deeper look at the political economy of Trinamool Congress rule in West Bengal and its relationship with the people in general ...

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