Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very ...

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Before her harrowing footage of life in Mariupol under siege from Russian invaders was viewed around the world in 2022, ...

Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.

Frank Stanford, who killed himself at age 29, died far too young. Thanks to writer James McWilliams, the legendary Arkansas poet's short but colorful life is now documented in a monumental biography.

The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

The loved-up couple are set to share the screen for the fourth time in Christopher Nolan's latest highly-anticipated project, ...

Guru Dutt cuts to the chase early on in Pyaasa. He opens the film, about a brilliant but unsuccessful poet, with a verse “Ye ...

The poet, the opera, and the Terror: when art dares to confront the violence of power. How one artist portrays the French ...

"As I was growing up, I began to be attracted to a certain kind of man," Lucinda Williams once wrote, "and I would maintain ...

Consider this collection a love letter to the everyday: 7 a.m. coffee, dinner with friends, finally sorting your shelves (for records, books or — for funkier homes — graphic novels with Alex Ross or ...