In 250 years of Black poetry, the act of writing is itself a form of protest. It isn’t just representing the history of struggle, “it’s also enacting it and resisting it,” said poet Kevin ...

Jeremy Corbyn led Britain’s Labour Party from 2015 to 2019. Len McCluskey was, until 2022, the leader of Unite, Britain’s wealthiest and most influential trade union. Together, they took over ...

April is National Poetry Month. In the Union-Tribune’s Arts+Culture section, you will frequently find poems written by our readers.However, publishers of this paper haven’t always been … ...

As my coverage of music history expanded, poetry per se was dropped for reasons of time, and the creative writing component was also discontinued. Term papers now focused on popular, jazz, or art ...

In 1909, two Londoners were commissioned to create a book that would become one of the world’s most bedazzling. Joobin Bekhrad reveals how it ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic.

The back cover of Ko-Hua Chen’s “Decapitated Poetry,” translated into English by Wen-Chi Li and Colin Bramwell, reads: “‘Decapitated Poetry’ was the first explicitly queer book of ...

If They Come for Us is Asghar’s way of grieving her family’s own overlooked history. The stories of her family’s forced migration are still relatively new to her, and her poems are often a ...

Vanport Mosaic will honor Black History Month with “All Power to the People: The Legacy of the 10-Point Platform,” an exploration of the Black Panther Party’s fight for justice and ...

In ancient history, the words of a prophet were highly valued in Jewish culture and philosophers were impactful to Greek culture. In Persia (now modern-day Iran), poets and poetry do not just act as a ...

As for modern pork-centric poems, you don't get more completist than William Matthews (1942-1997), whose Sooey Generis tries to shoehorn all of hog history into its seven stanzas.