“’Me or him’ that’s how war starts. But it ends in an awkward stance: ‘Me and him’” --from A State of Seige, translated by Fady Joudah, 2002...

In Toni Cade Bambara'a 1980 novel The Salt Eaters , the healer Minnie Ransom asks Velma Henry, "Are you sure, sweetheart, that you ...

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Carolyn Forché Originally uploaded by Split This Rock Poetry Festival Carolyn Forché reads on Saturday night at the festival. Photo by Jill...

Sunday March Originally uploaded by Split This Rock Poetry Festival Naomi Shihab Nye, Melissa Tuckey, Regie Cabico, Sarah Browning, Jamie Ja...

This just in from Patricia Smith: I’m a participant in the third annual daylong writing marathon sponsored by the New York Writers Coalition...

Some news from this afternoon in Bangor, Maine. We, the "Bangor 6", were acquitted for our civil disobedience a year ago in Sen. C...