On Friday night, President Trump put his favorite word to good use — fired. At a rally in Alabama, Trump criticized some players in the National Football League for kneeling during the national anthem ...

Last summer I attended a conference with the Ford Scholars on the Oregon coast. The scholarship program, founded by the Ford Family Foundation headquartered in Roseburg, assists hundreds of Oregon ...

Barton Sutter didn't set out to write a play in verse about the Bush administration. It started with a poem, then another poem and another. "I suppose it was years of political frustration, grief and ...

Kolkata, May 29 (PTI) Amid a growing chorus of dissent within the TMC after its loss of power in West Bengal, party supremo Mamata Banerjee has penned a new poem titled 'Girgiti', which political obse ...

With respectful political discourse but a fantasy in today's polemical era, I've wondered lately if poetry can catalyze a more civilized political engagement. Recently, I read one conservative pundit ...

Last June, while digging through 50 boxes of archival material about Bernie Sanders’s four terms as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, a reporter for the British newspaper the Guardian found a poem by ...

To knock on a door and talk politics with a neighbor. To crack open a book and hear a new voice. To canvass a side street, zig-zagging between houses. To turn from one line to the next until you reach ...

A rare constancy of the human experience is poetry. No matter how much people degrade each other in the quest for power, profit, or a false sense of security, and irrespective of how far some try to ...

How China caught the science fiction bug: “One afternoon in June 1999, more than three million Chinese schoolchildren took their seats for the Gaokao, the country’s national college entrance exam.