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While addressing Indian community event in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, Bissessar hailed the relationship between two ...
With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...
The Medieval Love Debate exhibition, now open at Longleat House, centres on a rare manuscript known as MS 258. The digital ...
Mary Alice Monroe’s latest novel, "Where the Rivers Merge," is a gorgeous read, one of those historical novels that sweeps ...
Karna’s dilemma, Parshuram’s rage & Urvashi’s love: 5 Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’ poems every Indian should read For a reader who indulges in revolutionary nationalism, with philosophical perceptions that ...
Poem II from Adrienne Rich’s sequence Twenty-One Love Poems describes the poet waking in her lover’s bed following a dream. She tenderly writes: “You’ve kissed my hair / to wake me.” ...
When Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible translation was published in 2018, I quickly became consumed by his poetic renderings of scripture. Before I knew it, I was writing persona poems of biblical ...
It’s melodic and literate while retaining the essence of early 80s DIY. The 1980s punk scene was volatile, divisive, and pure raucous poetry, and How Could Hell Be Any Worse? was one of its pillars.