Earlier this month, the Library of Congress named Santa Fe poet Arthur Sze the nation’s Poet Laureate for 2025-26. Sze will ...

His new cello concerto 'EcoSaga,' which the Minnesota Orchestra will premiere this week, reflects his reverence for nature ...

Poetry can express thoughts and emotions in freeing and insightful ways that prose simply cannot. For those who have never ...

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Pardon the alliteration. Let’s get into the dazzling, star-studded lives of the literati. Gilded soirees and Venetian parties aren’t the typical things that come to mind when thinking ...

Every Jawan is a farmer— sowing the seeds of future victory with his own blood, so that our tomorrow never wilts.” These lines, from a poem written ...

William Blake’s “Earth’s Answer” poem begins by personifying the Earth as a female figure: "Earth rais'd up her head,From the darkness dread & ...

When she finished writing, I read the question and students repeated, mirroring me as I acted out “under” by putting my hands ...

His new novel, “What We Can Know,” imagines the historians of the twenty-second century, who long for the world that they’ve ...

After chronic illness took her away from a high-flying fashion career, Bethany Williams found other ways to let her ...

When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. The British author’s 19th novel, published Tuesday in the U.S. by ...

Anna Tivel’s songs unfold like poems whispered across a room—delicate, precise, but carrying the weight of entire lives. She has long been one of folk ...