The past two COVID years, characterized by limited interactions and confinement to our homes, have only underscored the extent to which ours has become a culture of spectatorship. Unlike the dog in ...

Why do school kids shy away from poetry? The answer, suggests “Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry” — a new book from McSweeney’s, in conjunction with the Poetry Foundation — is ...

You could read Anne Waldman’s new poem in “The Lune” in just 11 minutes, zooming through her travelogue of Morocco, briefly tasting the camel burgers and ...

“Das himmlishe Leben,” about a child’s perspective on Heaven, is a poem (originally titled “Der Himmel hängt voll Geigen”) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a collection of German folk poems that Mahler set ...

I was trying to get down to the root where consciousness springs up under pressure from conflict and pain and power.” ...

If Sandra Bermann, Princeton's Cotsen Professor of the Humanities and professor of comparative literature, had to pick her favorite love poetry, it would be Shakespeare's sonnets. "I have loved them ...