In 1989, musician and storyteller Mark Staples wrote this poem about Butte at the request of Jenean Salle Kujawa, who was a ...

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

In this week’s poem, “two cents plain,” Anna Wrobel finds solace in of a glass of seltzer (for which the title is an old Brooklyn catch-phrase) and a wartime act of chance and humanity that resulted ...

Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days is more than just a film—it is an ode to the quiet dignity of a simple life, a meditation on the fulfillment that can be found in daily routines, and a love letter to Tokyo’s ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

Director Anubhav Sinha, known for films like Article 15 and Thappad, revealed the influence of his upbringing in Benaras on ...

What happened to all the plans we made? Babar Azam was once poetry in motion, now it feels more like constipation.

In the past year, Dasia Hood has been making an indelible mark for herself on the local art scene. As part of that journey, ...

No saccharine kiddie verses here. Children’s poetry book Alligator Pie, first published in 1974, is rollicking, creative, a ...