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Gibson was an artist and activist, whose spoken word poetry captivated millions and defied the hyperindividualism that ...
Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...
Birds and bees get all the action-and Samuel Taylor Coleridge was jealous. Here are the possible origins of the euphemistic ...
Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn has a book coming out next year that reveals how she has been shaped by the power of words. HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced ...
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 ...
Bill Moyers, who died last month at 91, will be remembered for his work as a top aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson and a ...
Since Edward Burtynsky’s birth in Ontario, Canada, in 1955, the Earth’s population has roughly tripled, and its economy has ...