In “We Are Gathered” at Arena Stage, Tarell Alvin McCraney grapples with the impacts of social change on queer relationships.

Acclaimed poet, storyteller, and social campaigner Alhanislam explores why it’s not diseases that are neglected — it’s people.

The poem reveals the mind-numbing conditions and physically exhausting jobs that were relentlessly inflicted on prisoners in ...

Poppies grow well in the Midwest and often by now are showing their colors. The red poppy, called the Flanders poppy, is just ...

A poem written by Jane Austen in her own hand is now on display at Winchester Cathedral, offering visitors a rare opportunity ...

Dorcey began her political activism in the 1970s, having returned to Ireland after living in France and England. Having met other queer people abroad, Dorcey was struck by the repression that ...

William Logan on new volumes and editions by Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Brad Leithauser, Dorothy Parker & Claudia Emerson ...

May 21, 2025 – "I want to talk about Valencia’s achievement in transmitting the conjoined rush of being young, being high, ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

SPRINGFIELD — Martin Espada’s new poetry collection, “The Jailbreak of Sparrows,” captures people, politics, and scenes and moments from Puerto Rico. Espada, a University of Massachusetts ...

A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...

Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers ... He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour. In the village of Mevagissey in southwest England the housing stock ...