What if We Call This Tenderness. By Sampson Starkweather. some corporation or collection agency calls me 3 or 4 times a day maybe they are kind of another mother or ex-lover genderless & savagely ...

Refaat’s poem “ If I Must Die” has been shared widely since he was killed. On social media, an impromptu effort translated it into dozens of languages: Spanish, Italian, Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog ...

Written in response to the “Red Summer,” a period of lynchings and violence against blacks that swept the USA in 1919, McKay’s poem urges readers to be brave and fight back in the face of death.