Once called “our present-day Homer” for her sprawling, experimental epics, she was honored with prizes and was a finalist for ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

Ballard, who wrote “on and off most of his adult life,” only turned to poetry at age 66. That being a mortality-aware time of ...

Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.

Melissa Ferrer Civil found community, and a path toward better mental health, through poetry. Now, she’s spreading the good ...

The artist’s sprawling survey at the Guggenheim reveals an intellect unfolding and a life under way.

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

Over six decades after she first hit the scene, Judy Collins remains one of the most iconic artists of the '60s folk movement ...

It’s been 100 years since Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and 60 years since he was assassinated. His expansive legacy is the focus of a new book written by journalist Mark Whitaker. He sat ...

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...