How can it be, with streaming services and cable channels engaged in an all-out arms race for our so-called “entertainment” dollars, that no one has produced reality show about poets? Consider the ...

Editor’s note: Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, the 2020-2023 poet laureate of San Antonio, delivered her poem “Freedom Mindset” at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Juneteenth Celebration on Thursday ...

The ghazal is a formal poem that has roots in seventh-century Arabia and was often sung by musicians. The poet Agha Shahid Ali introduced the form to America. “Ghazal” literally means “the cry of a ...

Twenty years ago, Eric Isaacson founded Mississippi Records, a record store and label based in North Portland. Since its inception, it’s specialized in sharing music outside of the mainstream. ”We’re ...

Zhang poses next to his poem The wall, whitewashed by parties unknown, after the poem went viral. Everybody thinks the authorities sent someone to erase the poem for reasons that must remain unspoken.

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To her early 20th-century audience, Tsilye Dropkin’s Yiddish poetry was as shocking for its content as its form. A Russian-born poet who immigrated to New York City at the age of 25, Dropkin broke ...