Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is regarded as one of Greece’s major poets and an eminent exponent of romantic ...

Kenya successfully hosted a special edition of the Freedom Café this week at its Nairobi offices, marking the launch of the poetry collection "We Refuse to Be Victims" by renowned Ugandan poet and ...

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, note with alarm the number of arrests and incidents of harassment and violence against individuals and human rights defenders exercising their right to ...

The Indian and Irish traditions share a poetic and mystical sensibility, demonstrating that the pursuit of spiritual wisdom and artistic expression knows no boundaries.

Last November, we received the news that İlhan Sami Çomak had finally been granted his freedom—a moment that took many of us ...

The poem reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” ...

Sarojini Naidu, known as the “Nightingale of India,” was a celebrated poet, freedom fighter, and politician. Her poetry was rich with themes of Indian culture, freedom, and the human experience.

But democracy is, at its core, fundamentally an ethical relationship. Even in its most elementary form, elections, democracy ...

The director Catherine Gund fuses work from multiple artists with archival footage and interviews to craft an exploration of ...

From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we ...