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 ...

Poetry slam is one of the few examples we have of a “language game” (to use Ludwig Wittgenstein’s famous term, but not exactly the way he means it) that is explicitly named as such.

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.

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 ...

Born on July 11, 1936, in Brahmanbaria, Al Mahmud (full name - Mir Abdus Shukur Al Mahmud) played a pivotal role in reshaping ...

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Beginning in the 16th century, Holden says, "engine" could have been applied to all sorts of "ingenious" machinery -- clocks, mills, pumps, and (later) the steam engine.

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.