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Topic: Poetry

Andrea Gibson in "Come See Me in the Good Light" (Apple TV)

Andrea Gibson faced death with love

Andi Zeisler
(Photo illustration by Salon / Sara Miles)

We can find political courage in poetry

Randall Horton
Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley appear in "Come See Me in the Good Light" (Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Brandon Somerhalder)

Andrea Gibson’s poetic fight for life

Gary M. Kramer
When D Watkins met Nikki Giovanni, Salon TV studios in 2017 (Peter Cooper/Salon)

How Nikki Giovanni taught me to be free

D. Watkins
A smartphone displaying the US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's new album "The Tortured Poets Department" on Spotify. (AFP via Getty Images)

Taylor Swift and the tortured poet’s "I"

Erin Keane
This picture taken on October 31, 2023 from a position near Sderot along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel shows Israeli army soldiers standing on a hilltop facing the Palestinian territory amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Yuri CORTEZ / AFP) (Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

When poetry tells us what prose can't

Norman Solomon
First World War: soldiers of the English infantry in France, running out of their trenches at the signal to assault. Somme, France 1916. (Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

Poetry, paradox and the worst war of all

Norman Solomon
Computer keyboard and meadow flowers (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

She could make this place beautiful

Erin Keane
Harry Melling as Edgar Allen Poe in "The Pale Blue Eye" (Scott Garfield/Netflix)

Poe, darling of the misunderstood

Scott Peeples - The Conversation
Martin Scorsese and Olivia Harrison at the 92nd Street Y event remembering George Harrison (Vladimir Kolesnikov/Michael Priest Photography)

Olivia Harrison's poems for George

Kenneth Womack
JD Vance | Green Bank, West Virginia (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Vance "leaves out" Appalachian women

Alison Stine
US poet Ada Limon (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Meet Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate

Amy Cannon - The Conversation
Audre Lorde lectures students at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida in 1983. (Robert Alexander/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

11 things to know about Audre Lorde

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Sylvia Plath seated in front of a bookshelf (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage

Jason Miller - The Conversation
AnnaLynne McCord and Amanda Gorman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Viral poems in a time of war

Alison Stine
Dante and Virgil meet Sapia amongst the envious, Second Terrace of Purgatory, engraving by Gustave Dore in the 1869 edition of Dante's "Divine Comedy" (Getty Images/DEA/BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA)

Justice for women in "Divine Comedy"

Laura Ingallinella - The Conversation
Poet Nikki Giovanni who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee (Mireya Acierto/WireImage)

Black poets give a voice to Affrilachia

Amy M. Alvarez, Jameka Hartley - The Conversation
"Floaters" by Martín Espada (W.W. Norton & Company)

Imagination is "critical" to activism

David Masciotra
Circa 1390, Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer (c 1342-1400). English poet, soldier and diplomat 1360-70. Wrote 'The Canterbury Tales.' ((Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images))

Valentine's Day in the Middle Ages

Jennifer Wollock - The Conversation
American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 20, 2021. (PATRICK SEMANSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Why spoken word poetry belongs in school

Kathleen M. Alley, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Wendy R. Williams - The Conversation
American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 20, 2021. (PATRICK SEMANSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The power of Gorman's inauguration poem

Jon Skolnik, Ashlie D. Stevens
Poet Nikki Giovanni speaks during the 12th Annual Afropunk Brooklyn Festival at Commodore Barry Park on August 27, 2016 in Brooklyn, New York. (Mireya Acierto/WireImage/Getty Images)

The enduring wisdom of Nikki Giovanni

D. Watkins
"Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change" by Maggie Smith (Photo illustration by Salon/Patri Hadad/Atria/One Signal Publishers)

Maggie Smith never stopped moving

Nicole Karlis
Owed by Joshua Bennett (Photo illustration by Salon/photo provided by author/Penguin Publishing)

"We need reparations" not a BLM sign

D. Watkins
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