However, it wasn’t until he joined up with the poet and American Indian Movement organizer John Trudell in the 1980s that Davis took part in an explicitly indigenous artistic project.

John Trudell, Wapaha Uha Mani (Walks with the Staff), beloved Santee Dakota poet, musician, actor, activist for peace and justice, creative yet critical thinker, and generous man of the people, passed ...

DAVID LEVERING LEWIS, HISTORIAN: Du Bois famously asked, “What have we, who have just emerged from slavery, and have so many problems, to do with poetry and novels?” Not everybody is going to ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...

and their children; his nephew John Devereaux and his daughter, of Johnson, Vt.; his nephew Micah Trudell and wife Becky, of Eustis, Fla., and their children; and his nephew James Devereaux ...

We present an extract from John Montague: A Poet's Life, Adrian Frazier's new biography of the celebrated poet, who passed away in 2026 aged 87. In the late twentieth century, Irish poetry ...

He is known as the 'Godfather of Punk Poetry,' and has created the world's most popular wedding poem: 'I Wanna Be Yours' which inspired the Arctic Monkeys song of the same name. Cooper Clarke is ...

so what the poet might have “dared” at the end remains a mystery. Perhaps more daring is John Donne’s His Mistress Going to Bed. Donne, an English poet who began writing in the 16th century ...

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

(133). I did not know, but I wasn’t bored. My favourite love poem is The Sun Rising by John Donne. Love threatens Shakespeare’s ego, for Donne it’s its own radical reality. His wife ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...