Melissa Tuckey

The poet reflects on the murdered and disappeared women of Ciudad Juárez, México.

A river can be a lifeline for refugees, or it can be just another line of sorrow in a story.

A poet from Iran remembers someone for whom time ran out too soon.

On the issue of torture, what goes around comes around.

Poets send their messages to the president, and keep them short.

The poet lets loose the dogs of war.

Iranian poet Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi faces down fear of war with a poem that explores the difference between coming to her home as a visitor and coming to her home as a soldier.

Sign this petition, sponsored by IPS and Split this Rock, urging Congress to allocate 1 percent of the stimulus package to the arts.

What will be the fate of the arts during this recession? The Institute for Policy Studies recently launched a petition calling for 1 percent of the stimulus package to be spent on the arts.

Let’s devote 1% of the stimulus package to the arts. And let’s go global with it.

Poet Michael Rosen reflects on childhood in Gaza.

A Poem ‘Scarecrow’

This is the time to be generous.

Here’s a detailed call for the stimulus plan to include a program that will support artists and writers.

Poet Kyle Dargan takes us on a bombing mission.

In the poem Possibility, Frances Payne Adler reflects on life after the closure of a military base.

Patricia Smith, in 34, describes the rising waters and the victims they claim.

Iranian poet Farideh Hassanzadeh talks about war, loss, and the politics of poetry.

Full Snow Moon, a poem by Melissa Tuckey.