We long for the time when we took to the streets. But now, we take those words from the streets and transform our post-occupy political daze into poetry. Poetry’s evasion of mainstream capitalism ...

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The Fountain Theatre ignites its stage with the West Coast premiere of “Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience,” a theatrical celebration of one of America’s most fearless writers and human ...

The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Demcoracy recently launched "Poetry and Politics," an initiative that explores the intersection of poetic expression and democratic politics. The center ...

The news is constantly before us. Unlike the time when a person read a morning or afternoon newspaper or watched a half-hour nightly national newscast, today news is available all the time. News of a ...

Last night, when I was looking for a subject for this column, but didn’t know which one, I was lucky enough to receive this request from Guanaíra Amaral, on the other side of the world, from Oceania: ...