Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto ...

So it was actually an incredibly intimate way to participate in politics as ... it really leans into a poem that I wrote a few years ago when I was a bit of a younger woman, and I was thinking ...

modern readers have found it hard to resist political interpretations. The poem’s most obvious preoccupation seems to be the Victorian notion of the ‘fallen woman’. When she wrote it Rossetti was ...

One of the messages was from a young woman who had recently been ... using your voice to fight bigotry is necessary. Poetry has slowly become more political, and justifiably so.

She says that there is a time in everyone's life, probably in teens when most people are first drawn to poetry—they adore the sound of it and the music it holds—the rhyme that it offers. It is only ...

She said she then began thinking of a new poem centered on "expressing hope for what could be, especially at the idea of ...

says Stalina. For the collective, poetry is inseparable from politics. Through their Facebook page and website, Poetria has ...

A 16th-Century epic poem based on the life of popular Hindu god Ram is at the centre of a huge political row in India ... the text is derogatory towards women as well as Dalits, who are at ...

This week's Jefferson Award winner is a Berkeley woman who has promoted child literacy for four decades, as host of a community TV show encouraging young poets.

The famous poem has been a guide for readers from Virginia Woolf to inmates in New Jersey, as Orlando Reade reveals in What ...

The collection also includes a poem, The Heart’s Path by Jomaa Ben ... anti-racist activist Saadia Mosbah - a new wave of women political prisoners. Dahmani was sentenced to two years in ...

I’ve spent the past few days in alternating states of shock, numb acceptance, anger, grief, and, above all else, exhaustion.