These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

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A recent invitation to speak on the life and legacy of Timothy Thomas Fortune was the perfect opportunity for my column.

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Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a towering author and poet, but his strange work is more interesting and ...

She painted them with a near spiritual ardour — large, macro portraits of roses, birds of paradise, calla lilies, and the black iris ... s new collection of poetry. Freerain treads the ...

Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, spoke at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History about his ...

In her new novel, “Counting Backwards,” a collage artist struggles with the declining health and hallucinations of her ...