Can the written word bridge our aching divides? Experiments are underway in some of the world’s most combustible conflict zones.
How Literature Can Help Bridge the Empathy Gap
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poetry
Poem: Sleeping in Gaza
A poem for Gaza.
Poem: Ars Poetica
The poem of the week from our friends at Split This Rock.
Dunya Mikhail: Politics in Service of Poetry
Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail talks about her experiences writing provocative poetry in two different countries.
Art and Activism at the Global Intersections: A Dialogue with Shailja Patel
A conversation with poet-activist Shailja Patel about art, identity, and Kenya’s ICC Witness Project.
Wang Ping and the Kinship of Rivers
An interview with Wang Ping, a poet and activist working to build a sense of kinship between the peoples of the Yangtze and Mississippi River valleys.
Poem: Dad, Pete, and Obama
A poet remembers Pete Seeger and her father.
Vultures Over Burma
A poem: To all the men and women who sing change change change Mee-ahn mar–we never heard of you before.
What Do They Do?
What do torturers do when they return home? Do they make love to their wives and play with their kids? What hobbies do they have? Do they wash the car and take out the trash?
Smaller than a Mouse
We demonstrated on a steaming day,
carrying signs.
Five hundred thousand people
in the streets of New York
saying no to war