Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., one of the most influential Black authors of the 20th century, will soon be buried in ...

And such are precisely the poles of Polish contemporary poetry in the last two decades of the 20th century. One of them is thus lyrical poetry involved in social and political affairs and in "fight", ...

Is there any statistical proof behind the stereotype that poets can't drive? A non-driving poet attempts to find out.

OLD ENGLISH POETRY is currently undergoing something of a renaissance in contemporary culture. Whereas several decades ago only a minority of nevertheless important and influential twentieth-century ...

Attention legend! Born in Pomona, California, in 1949, the American songwriter never topped the charts, but like Leonard ...

No two men more represented the homespun American spirit of the 20th century than composer Randall Thompson and poet Robert ...

The history of twentieth-century poetry has been read largely with a bias for the aesthetic values that gained currency with modernism. Privileging technical experimentation and novelty has precluded ...

Grace Cummings is a folk rock musician influenced by 20th century poets and luminaries, from Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan to Brett Whitely and Van Gogh. Her songwriting is intensely personal and ...

Edwin Frank has for the past 25 years been editorial director of NYRB Classics, the beloved cult publishers whose list feels like the product of a single, idiosyncratic sensibility. This makes him ...