Renowned English poet Ian McMillan has written an exclusive poem for The Big Issue to coincide with National Poetry Day and our campaign to stop mass homelessness. The combination of the £20-a-week ...

Poetry ON Pottery 2021 is planned for spring. With help from Poetry Heals mentors, the community’s homeless are encouraged to write their words from the heart in “A Place to Write” booklets ...

Did you know Orlando has a poet laureate? Spoken-word artist Shawn Welcome went from homeless to being in high-demand. Buddy ...

The poem is titled 'A Diary of a Homeless Girl' and is her attempt to bring awareness to the increasingly frightening rate of homelessness in the UK. She paints a vividly bold depiction with her ...

Tom Waits has added his talents to the final episode of Italian documentary series, Il Fattore Umano (The Human Factor), with ...

SIMON:I wrote this poem in the early nineties. It's interesting to write about homelessness because it's a real visible manifestation of something that's not working properly in society.

Send these the homeless tempest tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. Right? That's the poem. And the French politician actually quoted that poem when he was saying that we no ...

An anonymous poet uses the words of God as a call to action for people to "love thy neighbor" and help battle homelessness ... This month's poetry contest winners present a mixed bag of subjects ...

Thistle struggled with addiction as an adult and spent 10 years without stable housing and was often homeless. Thistle combines memoir with poetry to share his experiences in the memoir From the ...