My grandmother left Jerusalem in 1948 with a key that never found its lock again. She believed she would return before the tea cooled in its cup. The years hardened around that belief until it became ...

The post In Trump’s America, we can find courage and refuge in poetry appeared first on Salon.com. Aliia Roza, a former ...

There’s no question: The pandemic and the nation’s racial reckoning has weighed heavily on students. Much has been written about how they’re struggling. But they’re also finding ways to cope with the ...

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not (Sweet) I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the ...

They deny me a womb, but give me a temple. They deny me life, but give me divinity.” With these lines, Meera Khanna’s Light & ...

Last year, Joan Baez published her first-ever collection of poetry, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance, expressing her thoughts on personal and family life and some of her music peers. But a few ...

Where: Gonzaga University’s Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center. It is hosted by The Black Lens newspaper and Northwest Passages. Admission: Free, though tickets ...

Sam Intrator says he learned a lasting lesson during his early years as a public high school English teacher: “When a person and a poem come together, something special happens.” Intrator, who is a ...