In Brown’s poems, the body at risk — the infected body, the abused body, the black body, the body in eros — is most vulnerable to the cruelty of the world. But even in their most searing ...

His brothers see him as Pharaoh. They bow down before him. His dreams have come true. Joseph’s brothers want food like it’s food. They’re almost willing to trade their little brother for it ...

The sea-turtle hatchlings, with their instinctual desire to move toward light, risk this desire’s fatal ... So, too, the human voice of the poem begins lost — ready to worship but bereft ...

Gorman's poem, "Chorus of the Captains," celebrated ... who volunteers with the Wounded Warrior Project and works with at-risk kids, Los Angeles educator Trimaine Davis and Tampa ICU nurse manager ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Rare anti-slavery poem by Coleridge at risk of leaving UK, according to DCMS (Alamy/PA) A rare anti-slavery poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is at risk of leaving the UK unless a domestic ...