I can't help but recall lines from a Bangla poem I wrote in my late twenties ... who lost their lands under British rule and were crushed by the Tanka system, which imposed fixed and ever ...

Klotz, Petra. Suffering as a theme in Alice Walker's short stories "To hell with dying," "Strong horse tea," and "Everyday use", 2010. (Grabher) ...

how everything was still & slow & i owed u everything even when i could only find u in certain lines of siken poems the sun's ...

He served as a judge for the annual “Utakai Hajime,” or the Imperial New Year’s Poetry Reading ceremony, and as a tanka adviser for the imperial family. His grand resume belies his checkered ...

TPR’s Norma Martinez previews the event with Graciela Sánchez, director of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center; Annalisa ...

All Faiths Food Bank will present the Walk to End Summer Hunger – the kickoff event for the 12th annual Campaign Against Summer Hunger – on March 30 at Nathan Benderson Park. More than ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

FLINT, Mich. (WNEM) - Flint is getting ready to keep youth engaged and out of trouble this summer. The city is continuing a program that’s currently in select schools through the summer break ...

Sawyer Wilhelmi (second from right), a junior at Starkweather High School, is pictured as the third-place finalist in the 2025 Poetry Out Loud State Championship held recently in Bismarck.

"Who are you trying to strangle? And what god are you serving?" Hertgen wrote in one poem published to Facebook in September 2024. "I can see the knives sharpening. I can hear the arrows whizzing.