Adam Wolfond’s poem is mostly written in declaratives, giving it a sense of confidence. As a nonspeaking autistic artist, prose writer and poet, Wolfond uses language as an invitation to witness ...

Poetry’s supposed timelessness means that we sometimes overlook its capacity to memorialize a precise moment, but Peter Gizzi’s “In Defense of Nothing” — an earlier poem from this major ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

An estimated 1.5 million slaves were deported from the Bight of Benin, a territory that includes modern-day Benin and Togo ...