Vadik is caught between allegiances, neither as hawkish as the older members of his family nor as willing to defend the ...

Joy Harjo, the first Native American Poet Laureate in the U.S., is releasing two illustrative books this month, centered ...

Nearly a century has passed since writer Virginia Woolf alerted us to the breakdown of language when confronted with pain. Woolf noted that words provide an endless resource for those who dream or ...

"I feel like there is beauty in turning pain into power," Kaila began. She acknowledged that grief is very difficult to go through and everyone has experienced it in some capacity, from loss of a ...

Russia is preparing a major new offensive to capture more Ukrainian territory amid Donald Trump’s ongoing diplomatic interventions, Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed, despite Russian advances ...

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

There is little appetite in Ukraine and Russia for major concessions, according to a U.S. firm’s analysis of online posts. But a minority of Russians want to keep fighting until Ukraine’s ...

As fellow students gathered at the intimate cafe tables to listen, the presenting student poets shared poems about a wide range of topics, including contemporary pop culture references, meditations on ...

One of the factors that Kaila Estrada considered in portraying the character Max Alvero in “Incognito” was ensuring that the character would remain faithful to her core despite coping with grief.