Poets have long been drawn to ballet, and not surprisingly, they write about their favorite dancers and ballet companies.

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

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

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

In big, bold letters, a message for the citizens of the mountain: THEY’RE LYING TO YOU. Oh, it is so on. • That scene in ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

When I picked up the phone to call Cruse — always Howie to me — the most important thing I knew was that he had known my ...

I write this as Israel’s genocidal practices seem unstoppable, with no ceasefire in Gaza or Jenin. I am trying to fathom the ...

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