In Soviet times, being a pro-Ukrainian artist was dangerous. The Soviet secret police were particularly brutal in Ukraine, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) To celebrate Father’s Day, The Conversation U.S. asked Philadelphia anthropologist, playwright and poetic ethnographer Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon to reflect on a poem she recently ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

The artist creates a dynamic conversation between the museum’s historic art and architecture and the fluidity of contemporary ...

W hen Audre Lorde released her poetry collection Coal in 1976, her status as a groundbreaking Black lesbian feminist poet was ...

Inspired by the cleansing water of spiritual baths, aja monet's new poetry collection "Florida Water" is an ode to the ways a poem can rinse, unravel and reveal hard truths.

"The Popcorn with the Energy," "The Sun in A Billion Years," and a fresh new take on the color purple: these are just a few ...

Inspired by a past relationship, Arenas explored the personal burden of loving someone who refuses to open up. The poem ...

A captivating performance by acclaimed Jamaican writer and poet Dr Natalie Corthésy highlighted Poetry in the Park, an event ...

In her collection of poems, titled Exiled for My Mouth, Stella Nyanzi has laid on thick the thinness of her existence, rendering it precarious for her to go home and stay abroad. She is ...

In high-summer evening-light four barefoot Amish/ kids bend, pulling weeds from their garden./ My mother looks at them from ...

He was quite a man: served in the military, Golden Gloves boxer, and was brilliant enough to be a Rhodes Scholar so he read ...