The album “PO$T AMERICAN” begins with the sound of Gregg Deal thumping an animal-skinned hand drum. He opens his mouth and ...

Bush became president, first lady Laura Bush planned a White House symposium on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday called “Poetry and the ... turn it into an anti-war protest. The war in Iraq was ...

Poetry seemed to unsettle the government the most. Dissenters reciting protest poems were accused of spreading hate against India, beaten and arrested by the police. Poet Hussain Haidry rose to ...