Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

In their new collections, Jazz Money and Elfie Shiosaki tackle pressing themes of time, respect and resistance.

Nonetheless, in several poems he spoke out directly against the senseless inhumanity of the killing on both sides. When the first glimmer of the peace process arrived with the IRA ceasefire in ...

The beautiful ambiguity of that poem, its evocation of a couple’s love, the physicality and tenderness of their coming together, the brutality of their social circumstance, is perfectly held in ...

During his first term as president, Donald Trump led the effort to ban TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing site he said posed a threat to U.S. national security. But on the eve of his return ...

There are stand-up comedians who are pressured for jokes; on the other hand, there are poets — for example, Slava Malakhov, whom I read and who is in detention: he got in trouble for poems. And I am ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

I am kathalan OTT release: The South Indian film, I am Kathalan, directed by Girish AD, has made its OTT debut. The Malayalam movie, which hit theaters on November 7, stars Anishma and Naslen K ...

For example, since JFK’s 1961 swearing-in to the 44th president’s taking the oath of office for the second time, only one political party has muzzled, in Faulkner’s words, poetry’s “puny ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...