poetry

“Poetry that Gives Birth to Revolution”

January 15, 2014 By Christopher D. Sims

"We need powerful empowering poetry..."

Amiri Baraka, preeminent poet and activist, dies at age 79

January 10, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Amiri Baraka, one of the country's preeminent African American poets, playwrights and activists died Thursday at Newark's Beth Israel Hospital after a brief illness.

Today in labor history: Poet Carl Sandburg is born

January 6, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On January 6, 1878: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois.

A poem for Detroit

August 14, 2013 By Paul Felton

I'm going to tell to you a story; the details are a little gory. Detroiters are under attack; they're trying to stab us in the back.

Today in labor history: Emma Lazarus born in 1849

July 22, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Emma Lazarus, the poet who wrote "The New Colossus," was born July 22, 1849.