NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn has a book coming out next year that reveals how she has been shaped by the power ...

The soneta was born to hold what couldn’t be held. Now it holds up a mirror to empire and says: Look. See yourself. See what you’ve become. See what you’ve always been. When I created the soneta—a six ...

The storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789, is seen as a defining event in the French Revolution. But how does the ...

While Meena Kumari earned the title of Bollywood’s Tragedy Queen for her melancholic characters, her real life mirrored much ...

Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their ...

Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled ...

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

Through television, Moyers connected Americans with poets at street level, an especially valuable gift since few of us get to ...

Since Edward Burtynsky’s birth in Ontario, Canada, in 1955, the Earth’s population has roughly tripled, and its economy has ...

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.