A tourist who is out of time approaches the end of his or her trip and must return home soon. This is how the Rev. David May ...

Five poets in their twenties have written poems on poverty with the support of arts organisation Young Identity. These are their poems along with their honest views and experiences of what the ...

The poems express a range of thoughts and feelings -- longing ... admittance or deportation. The poets describe the poverty they left behind, the family hopes that accompanied them in their quest for ...

Poverty is on the rise across the capital ... with the aim of writing poems about the people who shop and volunteer there. The scheme, which works in partnership with Sainsbury’s Nourish ...

And there are pressing issues. Violence, racism, the environment, poverty and this bubbling sense that we”re not all getting along. Do you think poetry can be a tool for helping us cope? I do feel ...

African spoken word poetry is deeply rooted in the continent's rich oral traditions. For millennia, stories, histories, and ...

By Sylvester Brown, Jr. “Where is the poetry… In the screams In the cries In the begging I don’t need to see the poetry I ...

Dorothy Allison, the "Bastard Out of Carolina" author who died last week, modeled the power of honesty in her writing and her ...

The shape of the poem is simple. It’s written as one verse – this could suggest the single focus of the speaker – he is consumed by love. It could also imply the poverty noted towards the ...

As the lawyer of the mother and daughter who had made the allegations under “political pressure” and “due to extreme poverty” referred to the poem in which the judge acquitted a poor boy ...