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

Poetry remains timeless and continues to inspire songwriters. Here are five more songs prompted by the work of famous 19th and 20th-century poets. In the poem, the factory worker assumes all of ...

Highlights include several concerts inspired by precious natural resources and an Oregon symphony performance based on Celilo ...

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

The U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program, running from 2022 through 2025, celebrates the trailblazing contributions of ...

Oregon finishes up spring break this weekend with a few family-friendly events including the Gem Faire in Hillsboro and the ...

By Adam Nossiter Pierre Joris, a poet and translator who tackled some of the 20th century’s most difficult ... to translate Celan,” the Romanian-American poet Andrei Codrescu said in an ...

Some books stay with you forever, not just for their stories but for their breathtaking prose. These 13 novels are written so ...

The deal to sell California to Denmark means the Golden State would get “the rule of law, universal healthcare, and fact-based politics.” In exchange, Denmark would get Yosemite, Hollywood, redwood ...

That is the history of Buffalo’s twentieth century, an unparalleled relationship of industry and art; Milton Rogovin’s photographs of steelworkers and barroom poetry readings. The teaching and writing ...

What’s opening in April? A blend of refreshed throwbacks conjuring classical still lifes, Renaissance anatomy and radical ...

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...