In line with the work that the Margarida Losa Comparative Literature Institute has been doing in recent years on the topic at hand, in April 2021 we started a series of online conversations titled “Poets talk Politics” began, in which poetry experts (from the ILCML and other universities) chat with a poet about the ways in which his/her work converses with the contemporary ideological milieu, negotiates the relationship between aesthetics and citizenship, and uses literary methods to produce political thought.