Mud, Poetry and Political Imagination
Photo by Nick Fewings
The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets.
– James Baldwin, “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity”
“Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge........

Toi Staff
Sabine Sterk
Gideon Levy
Mark Travers Ph.d
Waka Ikeda
Tarik Cyril Amar
Grant Arthur Gochin