poetry
Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Another America’: Poems in an updated bilingual edition
August 4, 2022“I came to the Southwest expecting cactus, wide open spaces, and adventure. I found, instead, another whole America."
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On the bicentennial of Shelley’s death: Evolution of a working-class poet
July 12, 2022Next to Burns, Shelley had the greatest influence on 19th-century working-class literature in England. His vision applies undiminished today.
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Darko Suvin’s fiery poetry and ‘Insubordinate Essays’
June 30, 2022In 2016, at the age of 86, Darko Suvin did something that would have taxed the energies of someone half his age.
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March 25, 2022A poem by Chris Butters.
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Challenging the poverty of words: Interview with progressive poet Frederick Pollack
January 12, 2022People’s World culture writer Michael Berkowitz asks about socialism, history, the future, and poetry’s role in all of those.
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