The Flame of Beauty: Reflections On A Poet's Journey
Poetry has been my quiet and humble redeemer, and it has also taught me that there is nothing that art can't hold, no matter how dark.
Poetry has been my quiet and humble redeemer, and it has also taught me that there is nothing that art can't hold, no matter how dark.
J. Michael Welton | Posted 04.12.2012
Designer Cleto Munari is putting his personal collection of art, furnishings and objects -- many created in conjunction with architects like Michael G...
Nikky Finney | Posted 04.02.2012
We are called angry Black women because we are not afraid of bare arms. We pay close attention to our arms, holding our children tight inside of them.
AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 11.25.2011
-- Ruth Stone, an award-winning poet for whom tragedy halted, then inspired a career that started in middle age and thrived late in life as her sharp...
Posted 12.06.2011
A cheer went up in the Swedish Academy as they announced that, for the first time since 1974, one of their fellow countrymen had been awarded the Nobe...
Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.04.2011
While a number of American dark horses appear on potential contenders for this year's Nobel Prize For Literature list, from DeLillo to Bob Dylan, the ...
Feliz L. Molina | Posted 11.28.2011
On Facebook, poet extraordinaire and teacher CAConrad stated he was heading to Occupy Wall Street. CAConrad is the author of The Book Of Frank and for...
Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 09.18.2011
I sat down with Poetry Slam founder and performance poet Marc Smith to discuss how this rough and tough guy from the Southeast side came to create such an institution.
Posted 06.26.2011
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle sailed to office on a mantra of reform. So it's no wonder that she's undertaking a complete overhaul of t...
sfgate.com | Marcia Perskie | Posted 05.25.2011
John Ross, an author, poet, liberal activist and journalist who toiled against perceived injustice from the jungles of Chiapas, Mexico, to the baked s...
Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011
Where are you now, and where do you need to go? Do you have a map of how to get there? I've long described philosophy as cartography for the soul, a ...
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011
"What happens when the poet faces illness? How is the poetry affected by alterations of the body and mind?"Read Danielle's new article in th...
guardian.co.uk | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011
From an exhortation to "Lose ugly weight fast!!/ Feel Happier! Healthier!/ Dump your bigotry" to "Meet local singles!!/ Easy: stand near others/ Hang ...
poetryfoundation.org | Posted 05.25.2011
The Poetry Foundation By Becca Klaver For the United States' 129th Labor Day, we bring you a variety of poems, podcasts, and articles--some meditate ...
Posted 05.25.2011
James Franco, author and occasional movie star, plays legendary beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the new film, Howl. Shot in stark black-and-white, the fi...
Ben Evans | Posted 05.25.2011
To capture the voice of a city as immense and diverse as New York, to write its essence, is a challenge taken on by many resident literati.
Courthouse News Service | ALEXANDRIA D'ANGELO | Posted 05.25.2011
A man claims three police officers beat him up because they didn't like a poem he wrote. "What does it mean?" the officers asked him, according to the...
Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011
In my life, time, especially time to write, is what I fight for.
AP | MARTHA WAGGONER | Posted 05.25.2011
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Poet Maya Angelou celebrated a belated 82nd birthday Thursday with a few celebrity friends and a few choice words about po...
Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011
We cannot get away from the romanticism of war -- indeed, we romanticize it every day, even as we curse the notion. And this war is epic, to be sure. Think back to the first act in this play.
John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011
Sotheby's expert Gabriel Heaton gave us a hint of their contents, telling the British newspaper The Guardian that "Byron clearly enjoyed writing slightly outrageous things to a clergyman..."
John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011
Cue the New Year, when even a man as famously dour as Thomas Hardy can find inspiration. In his poem "The Darkling Thrush," he looks solemnly out at the end of the 19th Century.
Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011
Style comes with maturity for most writers. Here is a poet at the unmistakable peak of her expressive power and experience -- Louise Gluck, with her new book, A Village Life.
David Whyte | Posted 11.17.2011
It is the task of poetry to bring our eyes to bear on the heart breaking nature of our disappearances, which are unavoidable no matter our economic standing or our education.
Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011
Two poets -- singing the same song in different keys -- create new maps of poetic consciousness.
Vanessa D. Fisher | Posted 05.19.2012