"We were none of us in the front line." Longley and Heaney had attended some of the civil rights marches in the late 1960s.

Poet Amanda Hawkins shares their experience writing a poem they initially resisted writing and how Hawkins was able to move past that feeling and write.

For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.

National poet of Palestine Mahmoud Darwish left a lasting legacy through his numerous works. His poetry gained widespread recognition after his passing, especially the iconic poem 'Rita and the Rifle, ...

The Trump administration’s Tuesday announcement that federal immigration agents would not face limits on arrests at or near ...

Ask students to step into the past to better understand the present. Can ancient drama heal contemporary campus divides? That’s what one small liberal arts college believes. Kenyon College in Ohio is ...

Even in 2025 education remains a gender lottery with 130 million girls around the world not enrolled in school. But some of ...

Obunbanjo releases boundless energy, merging opposites; so did William Blake, another London poet, who centred Adam ...

The trailer for "28 Years Later" uses the same eerie Rudyard Kipling poem that's played during the military's survival and ...

Denis Pogrebnoy from Karelia posted poems about 'foreign agents' and political prisoners on his social media page.

It looks like a modern free verse, an ode to war or at least a war economy. New Nato chief Mark Rutte’s latest speech on the state of the military alliance comes with stanzas of varying lengths ...

Over the decades of writing this column, readers have sometimes remarked on my transparency about my doubts, struggles, life ...