Observing in Ecatepec
July 26, 2012 | The experience of this election observer highlights the deficit of quality in Mexican democracy.
July 26, 2012 | The experience of this election observer highlights the deficit of quality in Mexican democracy.
November 16, 2011 | A poem for the mother of a young man killed by a bomb in Israel.
October 12, 2011 | On the Walk of Shame, poets visit the embassies of Burma, Yemen, and Turkmenistan to read aloud the poems that can't be read inside those countries.
June 28, 2011 | Al-Mutanabbi Street was once the center of literary life in Baghdad. A new project brings the street back to life.
December 14, 2009 | As the United States escalates the war in Afghanistan, poets speak out.
March 10, 2008 | Poets are coming to Washington to hammer home a message and hammer out a new poetic vision for America in the world.
September 21, 2006 | Sarah Browning writes about how poets have used their distinctive voices to protest war, from the 5th century BC to the ongoing conflict in Iraq.