The author explores a personal struggle to emotionally connect with poetry.Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry reframes poetic failure as universal.Red ...

The late Memorial Art Gallery chief curator Marjorie Barkin Searl would have loved a gathering held recently in her honor.

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

Some plays are like novels. They are complex, wide in scope and epic in nature. Others, like “Mary Jane,” playing through ...

‘They say a poet can change your life,’ a woman tells me in a hotel lift. We’re in Durban, South Africa, where I’m appearing ...

Tesfaye Befirdu, better known by his pen name Truayer, carries the weight of stories—both personal and collective—on the pages of his books. At 34, the ...

Gordon Greeno worked for 60 years, but he was always a policeman. Just as humans are comprised of many components, Greeno was ...

In “Democracy and Beauty,” Robert Gooding-Williams explores the arguments and intellectual legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Zionism didn’t erase anyone else’s story, it let us keep ours. And most importantly, Zionism is not the slur you think it is.