M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the ...

Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she ...

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

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

When words are all we have, poetry becomes a lifeline that brings us closer to understanding ourselves and each other. Here ...

"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...

Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol are the main men at 175 and duke it out in a fascinating rematch in the main event on ...

Austin Shakespeare presents scenes from 'The Mahabharata,' the ancient Indian epic and Austin South Asians remember the tales from their youths.

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

Piedmont Arts brought poet, scholar and musician TJ Anderson III to Martinsville for a free talk featuring readings of his award-winning poetry. Anderson has written a number of poetry books ...