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

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 ...

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He used to take part in peaceful demonstrations on behalf of free speech. Now, poet Maung Saungkha leads his own rebel group on the battle against Myanmar's military junta.

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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.

On the night of October 30, 1937, at least 132 Belarusian cultural figures, scientists, and officials of that time were shot ...

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You’ve shown me what true men and women look like and you’ve shown me what it means to put something above myself.” Dave ...