By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

I heard what she said but didn’t quite get it. Her observation didn’t sink in, and wouldn’t sink in until years later.” ...

Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...

This is a series about analogs, things people make by hand. The first person I want to tell you about is Duane Jensen, who ...

To call a work of art bad because it does not elicit that initial reaction, it only means you must look deeper within the piece and yourself. I invite you to do so in 2026.” ...

John Lennon always wanted to be the most authentic version of himself, and that resonated in music, sometimes a little bit ...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed ...

We’re happy to present an excerpt from Scout Tafoya’s new book on the work of Anthony Mann. The synopsis from Amazon is below ...

Of course, with more knowledge at our fingertips today than sometime around lunch yesterday, the least-well-off among us have long known this without wasting time to learn it: Poetry is too poetic ...

This Q&A is an installment of Houston Landing’s Who are HOU? series that aims to tell stories celebrating the melting pot of ...