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

Finally, we limited the list to Americans: Asking 25 books to represent 25 years of artistic progress within the many traditions that feed into American poetry was difficult enough. For all the ...

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 ...

As I was reminded throughout that evening, jazz is the most fundamental expression of innovation and creativity in American ...

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 ...

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 ...

A comprehensive overview explores the “paradox” of Weegee’s work and how he went from taking tabloid photos of murder to ...

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

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

This short poem was collected by Mary Austin, an early-20th-century American poet of the modernist movement ... as he published his first poems in a small California magazine called The Lark.