The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

Bronx poet Roya Marsh is celebrating the Feb. 4 release of her second collection, “savings time,” described as a “love letter ...

Discover how a dandelion grows from a delicate fluffy seed into a bright yellow flower, enjoy beautiful poems which lift the ...

Poet Lisken Van Pelt Dus explores themes of identity, displacement and belonging in her new collection, "How Many Hands to ...

Narrow alleyways turn into gauntlets of flame. A fireball scours the street, combusting all in its path. Faces are blistered, hair singed, eyes wide from fear. Everyone is shouting, drowning out the ...

I began writing my first poetry collection in the summer of 2024, and this winter, it finally got published! Here's the ...

York woman Nikki has laid bare abuse suffered at the hands of a partner that left her so hopeless she preferred staying in fear to trying to escape.

You have edited Yaraana, India’s first anthology of gay writing. What was the experience like? Hoshang Merchant: I will take ...

After weeks of speculation about "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei's strategy for dealing with the new Trump administration in Washington, it seems that he has opted for a cocktail of tantalizing pledges ...

It's wrong to think of self-esteem as a quality that depends only on what we say and do. Self-congratulation is no substitute ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...