Fifty years ago this month, a protest in Detroit turned into a riot, which turned into five days of violence that left dozens dead, thousands arrested and a city engulfed in flames. While the event is ...

What is it about rage that makes it a necessary emotion? A cleansing, fierce, tumultuous necessity? Temper is capricious, it could even be peevish. Anger is, well, anger; even the word seems more ...

My favorite poem is by the early 20 th century Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. It reads: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of ...

“They’ve already sent a mother who midwifed her daughter’s abortion to jail. / I don’t say this to my friends as we tour a colonial mansion. I’d ruin the day.” So writes poet Jennifer Martelli in her ...

A poem written by a Ukrainian soldier, who is fighting the Russian invasion, has been translated into about 10 languages in just one week, Ukraine’s Ministry of foreign affairs said on Thursday. The ...

Poetry has two kinds of music. There is the sound it makes when read aloud, and then it has an inner composition, too -- that strange, occult rhythm that verses make when your mind, not your lips, ...

The front cover of Koleka Putuma’s debut poetry anthology, Collective Amnesia, reveals itself in layers. At first glance, it is a black-and-white image: a barefoot black woman, dressed in black and ...

The police officer looks at you with a jolly grin, holding a rye bread sandwich. He has the proverbial map of Ireland on his face and the words above his smiling expression underline this point: “You ...