poetry

“Preoccupied”: A poem

January 17, 2014 By Tim Mills

"That's why we been preoccupied. Democracy filleted is democracy denied."

Amiri Baraka: 1934 – 2014

January 16, 2014 By Special to People’s World

"He did for the English syntax what Monk did with the chord. He was an original."

“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.