Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto ...

She says that there is a time in everyone's life, probably in teens when most people are first drawn to poetry-they ad ...

So it was actually an incredibly intimate way to participate in politics as ... it really leans into a poem that I wrote a few years ago when I was a bit of a younger woman, and I was thinking ...

modern readers have found it hard to resist political interpretations. The poem’s most obvious preoccupation seems to be the Victorian notion of the ‘fallen woman’. When she wrote it Rossetti was ...

The veteran politician entered public service inspired by a Black woman and may now step down, having fulfilled that legacy ...

Democrats have expected poetry to hold their messaging for far too long, and they are losing voters, particularly ...

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

A 16th-Century epic poem based on the life of popular Hindu god Ram is at the centre of a huge political row in India ... the text is derogatory towards women as well as Dalits, who are at ...

A collection of accounts published by Syracuse University Press describes gendered repression that has disturbing parallels ...

Harris plans to spend election night at Howard University, an historically black university and her alma mater. It sends a ...

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.

Voters once again failed to elect a highly qualified woman as president of the United States — in favor of a narcissistic, crude, rude, clown-car driver of a candidate. And I was left with more ...