Topic: Poetry
Rao’s poems made ones in power uncomfortable: 50 young poets in solidarity with jailed poet
More than fifty young poets across the country have expressed their solidarity with people's poet Varavara Rao and condemned his arbitrary arrest under draconian charges like UAPA, urging the authorities to release him immediately.
Poet, journalist arrested in Karnataka over anti-CAA poem
Siraj recited a seven-stanza poem titled “Ninna Dakhale Yaavaga Needutti”, which translates as “When will you show your papers?”
The fear of your threats can’t devour us, Modi: Poem by deceased IAS aspirant’s sister
Suleiman’s sister Sana Zahid, 22, a final year BSC student wrote a poem soon after Suleiman's death. The poem was originally written in Urdu and translated by Kamayani Sharma, an independent writer and columnist based in New Delhi.
Watch: ‘An Ode to Fascism’- Poem
You are not to be questioned, you are beyond reproach
Oh you perfect one, what they need is probably a coach
Still dissenting? let's beat them to submission
Into their bedroom, living room and kitchen, let's encroach
Poem; When your best citizens are killed on the streets, and piled in the jail…
A poem by Adivasi rights activist Abhay Xaxa
Julia Vinograd, the Berkeley poet known as ‘The Bubble Lady’ dies at 75
Her poetry continued, honoring the lost, the misfits, the downtrodden, the abandoned, the wild and the free. She was called a street poet. She was for decades part of Berkeley’s cultural DNA. She wrote 50 volumes of poetry, much of which is about Berkeley.
