Editor’s note: Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, the 2020-2023 poet laureate of San Antonio, delivered her poem “Freedom Mindset” at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Juneteenth Celebration on Thursday ...
In honor of Indigenous People’s Day this past Monday, I thought it would be fitting to share an English translation of this excerpt of the exquisite lyric poem, “Hatuey”, written by the Cuban Yiddish ...
(RNS) — From Fidel Castro to Ho Chi Minh, Elaine Mokhtefi has met some of the most important socialist revolutionaries of the 20th century. Born to a Jewish family in Hampstead, New York, in 1928, she ...
My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...