Calling a poem proposed for a monument in Mankato’s Reconciliation Park divisive and untrue, the City Council voted Monday to table its permission to locate the memorial in the park. “The name of this ...

Poised and immaculately dressed in a canary yellow Prada coat, inaugural poet Amanda Gorman followed in the footsteps of beloved literary figures such as Maya Angelou and Robert Frost when she recited ...

In her poem “Reconciliation, A Prayer,” former U.S. Poet Laureate and Muskogee Creek musician Joy Harjo wrote “All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.” Indigenous women in music are ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Warwick. Followed categories will be added to My News. As Warwick East State School student Ethan Jones started to learn about the cruel history of Australia, he ...

ON Armistice Day, a message of mutual compassion after terrible mutual loss. The poem, by Margaret Sackville, is included in the forthcoming anthology, Beneath Troubled Skies: Poems of Scotland at War ...

Tillson now considers it is his life’s purpose to share his work, taking inspiration from a quote that’s widely attributed to ...

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Juliane Okot Bitek is an award-winning writer and community leader for social change. Originally from northern Uganda, she moved to Canada in 1990. Her poetry, fiction and essays have been published ...