Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen died at age 82 on Monday, just when we needed his lyrics most.* Fortunately, we still have those lyrics and, thanks to a new video from Blank on ...

There’s a cautionary tale to be found in A Poem Is A Naked Person, the unreleased Les Blank film about musician Leon Russell. Blank, who had started to make a name for himself for his short films, was ...

Never released before in theaters, the late, great documentarian Les Blank’s 1974 “A Poem Is a Naked Person” is a tuneful peculiarity, capturing singer-songwriter Leon Russell and his bandmates, his ...

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day ...

“Brown girl brown girl, what do you see? I see a vice president that looks like me.” In November 2020, Chicago-based writer Leslé Honoré was driving with her 20-year-old daughter when she got a text ...

Or no bird at all. In 1918, Robert Frost inscribed a handwritten poem in the cover of a friend's book. For 88 years, the work remained hidden from the world, until Robert Stilling, a graduate student ...