Two national literary figures, Marion Winik and Naomi Shahid Nye, have collected the prose and poetry of late Texan Ann ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

In the late twentieth century, Irish poetry achieved an historic quality, a golden era to compare with the verse of the Elizabethan and the Romantic periods. A Poet's Life is the definitive ...

Leonard Peikoff dedicated his life to promoting the author’s vision of freedom and self-determination. But at what cost?

Camp Simpirre, just next to the town of Gotu, is an unusual setting for an academic conference, but the Drylands Summer School isn ... by the U.S. government in late January.

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Japan's official cherry blossom spotters on Monday confirmed the first blooming of the country's favorite flower, declaring ...

He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into ...

After a dazzling career in poetry, the Iranian American author makes his novelist debut with ‘Martyr!’, a story based on his ...

Many Indian writers have benefitted from the famed Iowa Writing Program, but recent funding cuts threaten to close this ...

Ruth Padel, poet and author, argues that Fainlight’s feminism is only one of the many strands of her work. “Above all, she’s naked,” she says. “She says it as it is. Unlike Plath, who goes from her ...