I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politi….

The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness..

As Trevor Noah recently quipped, the US appears ready to crown its first African dictator: Donald Trump..

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own..

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it..

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own..

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets..

Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif Laâbi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight against….

[Abdellatif Laâbi] was a poet and worked as a high school teacher; and although he hadn't broken any laws, the Moroccan government was determined to ….