Tag: Poetry

Michel Houellebecq’s Islamophobia and chauvinism have made him a favorite intellectual of right extremists. So why does he appeal to so many on the left as well?

When Celes Tisdale led poetry workshops at Attica State Prison, soon after the 1971 uprising, some of the prisoners were still recovering from gunshots.

Until recent decades, Dickinson was most often depicted as a sentimental spinster or reclusive eccentric. A new biography and TV show reveal instead a self-aware artist who created a life that defied the limits placed on women.

The author of Moby Dick is best known for his novels, but he devoted the second half of his life to writing poetry.

What gauzy reclamations of the poet miss at his bicentennial.

The work of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud recalls a time when the two sides of the Caribbean island were united by their visions for an equal society.

These poems are urgent calls for rethinking our place on an imperiled planet.

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

Jorie Graham’s Fast marks the fraught presence of an environmentally inclined writer whose most immediate environment, the body, confronts a foreclosed future.

A poem a day, everyday, in honor of National Poetry Month.