John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and it resonates more than ever.

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

Venice, a living museum of obscene wealth, was an apt place for his nuptials.

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

We need "America the Beautiful," just like every other country needs an anthem, to evoke a sense of collective belonging and ...

At "Voices for Palestine" at Hed Hi Studio, the Charleston community gathered to uplift Palestinian culture through poetry, ...

My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes ...

America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...

More by Genevieve Pfeiffer This article was originally published with the title “Prayer to Fireflies” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 333 No. 1 (July/August 2025), p. 103 ...

The International Armenian Literary Alliance’s Los Angeles Chapter presents a literary evening of writers in celebration of ...

At one time, for generations of South Asian immigrants, the mango was a symbol of loss and somehow all the sweeter for it ...