The news is constantly before us. Unlike the time when a person read a morning or afternoon newspaper or watched a half-hour nightly national newscast, today news is available all the time. News of a ...

How meaning slips from lyric imagination to power and code in the post-Enlightenment age Christopher Caudwell foresaw the eclipse of poetry by reason. In the post-Enlightenment age of politics and ...

This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with poet W.S. Merwin, who recently won the Pulitzer Prize. During the taping of the interview, Merwin argued that political poetry rarely makes for good ...

To knock on a door and talk politics with a neighbor. To crack open a book and hear a new voice. To canvass a side street, zig-zagging between houses. To turn from one line to the next until you reach ...

Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and analysis to make sense of the news. Episodes drop Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Emma’s Must-Sees See TV Programming Manager Emma ...

Last night, when I was looking for a subject for this column, but didn’t know which one, I was lucky enough to receive this request from Guanaíra Amaral, on the other side of the world, from Oceania: ...

The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets. – James Baldwin, “The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INTERVIEW: As the 65th Grammy Awards approach, theGrio spoke with actor-poet Malcolm-Jamal Warner about being nominated in the ...