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What else could famous mean? As a queer Asian American woman, Franny Choi uses poetry to explore the multiple facets of her identity. For National Poetry Month, she read us "Turing Test," from her ...
she opened with a poem about her bisexuality. It was the first time she'd publicly come out about her LGBTQ+ identity. In the poem, Cylie described the feeling of being a two-sided coin, not fully ...
Karisma Price and Sally Wen Mao — for a poem on the subject of identity. We then asked three artists — Margaret Flatley, Anjali Chandrashekar and S. Mirk — to translate the poems into comic ...
turning Ms. Gorman’s poem of hope for “a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished” into the latest focus of debates about identity politics across the continent. The discussion has ...
Two remarkable new poetry collections are reshaping conversations about Black American identity and experience. Brad Walrond’s Every Where Alien and Cheryl Clarke‘s Archive of Style ...
The medieval poem “Pearl” was written by someone whose identity we do not know, and is set mostly within a dream. Neither of these facts is unusual in medieval poetry. Authorship is often ...
In the heart of North Dakota, a local artist is turning pain into purpose, poetry into power. Known on stage as Dakotah Faye, Dakota Poitra has transformed a life shaped by identity struggles ...