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

These collections by Juliana Spahr, Mai Der Vang, Hasib Hourani and Martín Espada invite us to rethink the relentless accumulation of history.

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It turns out that Joan Didion, who probed the depths of her grief for her late husband John Gregory Dunne in the powerful ...

To read Shukla is to read not a version of what is already known, but what is constantly being inscribed in and erased from ...

Doggerel! There I said it. Sometimes words just wander through my mind on their way to somewhere else. That one drifted through just the other morning as I was accompanying Lucy, the Ambassador of ...

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Memory deceives. Perception distorts. For Elisa Gabbert ’02, the ubiquitous condition of our times is ‘unreality’ — modern ...

Tamil Oli, a poet of the Dravidian movement, blended Tamil communist literature with anti-caste themes. Known for his May Day ...

For nearly four decades, much-loved Honesdale teacher Pete Ruvolo recited "Casey at the Bat" on Opening Day. We remember him ...

Clare is a Kildare poet originally from Westmeath. She achieved first place in Poetry Ireland /Trócaire unpublished poet competition and the Jonathan Swift poetry awards. Clare has also featured on ...

This question of social relevance gets additional urgency as we celebrate Dr. Tunde Olusunle—a distinguished novelist, poet, ...