I never liked the World Trade Center. / When it went up I talked it down
So begins David Lehman’s “World Trade Center,” written in 1996, about the way his feelings toward the Towers changed over time. This poem is the frontispiece in Poetry After 9/11,… Read more »
The story behind MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
King’s letter is a key civil rights text; in it he argued that the fight against racial segregation had to be taken to the streets… Read more »
In response to hedge fund support of T.S. Eliot prize, John Kinsella issues manifesto on poetry as activism
Poet John Kinsella published a rousing manifesto of poetry as activism in the New Statesman yesterday. He recently pulled out of the T.S. Eliot prize, days after Alice Oswald also renounced her… Read more »