Dear readers, Here are seven poets, seven ways of saying no. Mugdhaa Ranade's verses take a body apart, piece by piece, in blunt, clinical language, hammered along by doubled verbs (pull, pull; chew, chew; laugh, laugh) to show what obedience costs. Priya Sarukkai Chabria's lines...

Do walls speak? Can three untouchably powerful men actually lose, in Chidimma Ewelukwa's Walls That Bleed — or does a house merely wait, the way houses do, for the one crack that lets everything it has swallowed come back out? Walls That Bleed uses sentence...

We know how to reject. We discard what no longer serves us: objects, places, histories, bodies and people. We call what remains refuse. Yet the web of life rarely accepts our verdict. What we reject persists, returns and insists on being seen. This year’s Art...

No matter how much AI takes over our life, human resources are constantly sought after for ideas and inspiration. It is no wonder that in many parts of the globe, we have human libraries, where one may borrow people for a few minutes of conversation...