Poet Katie Berta will read her poetry at UNK next week. She shared that she always considered herself to be a writer even as ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

Wordplay, tradition and politics swirl around a collective of performers attempting to define ‘contemporary art’ in ...

“Gone is the age of satire,” the speaker says, but this very poem, worthy of Swift, demonstrates that satire is, if dangerous ...

The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight.

Professor Niyi Osundare is a man of many parts. He defies a single description too. Many describe him as a multiple ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with ...

Barnes amassed one of the world’s greatest private collections of modern European artwork—more Cézannes (69) and Renoirs (an ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

Elon Green’s telling of the life and death of the artist Michael Stewart is filled with heartbreaking echoes of the present.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum ...