This short poem grapples with so many themes at once — seeing, being seen, desire, racism, selfhood and memory. The poem starts in a matter-of-fact fashion with a declarative, “I don’t like ...

on Friday made her first on-camera remarks since the attack that hospitalized her husband, saying he will improve and reading a poem to call for uniting the country. “It’s going to be a long ...

Flying in the face of much contemporary poetry, Nam Le’s first collection 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is defiantly cerebral, relishing the polysyllabic, the latinate and the esoteric.