“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power ...

The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Demcoracy recently launched "Poetry and Politics," an initiative that explores the intersection of poetic expression and democratic politics. The center ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal agents in fatigues gather near the scene of 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, where federal agents shot and ...

Poet Michael Klein guest-writes for my column space this month and examines what happens when the political inhabits the poetical consciousness. Klein asserts that poetry has the power to collapse our ...

The news is constantly before us. Unlike the time when a person read a morning or afternoon newspaper or watched a half-hour nightly national newscast, today news is available all the time. News of a ...