Julie Swarstad Johnson, an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has served as poet in residence at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. She is author of the collection ...

Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few o ...

I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...

In the Ancient Greek epic poem "The Odyssey," Odysseus' men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens' ...

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

If Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster doesn’t write for a while, she freely admits to becoming a “wile carnaptious person” to be ...

Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu tables the Tamil Nadu Budget for 2025-26 in the legislative assembly today amid the ...

The two worlds of Sabyasachi Mukherjee spread across two floors of the Nilaya Anthology in Mumbai are like twins separated at ...

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

Summer in Vienna surprised me with an unbearable wave of heat. It lasted only two weeks but felt like an eternity under the sun and in buildings with no AC. Koko and I tried our best to make the most ...

DEAR ABBY: While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the ...

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” It is the first line of Robert Frost’s poem, “Mending Wall.” In the poem, Frost ...