Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

Santa Filomena ,” which he wrote for The Atlantic ’s inaugural issue, in November 1857, attests to his lifelong belief in the ...

Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach has decided to end her biweekly column, which started in 2022 as a look at aging in Santa Cruz and morphed into a moving chronicle of grief when her beloved husband ...

Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she ...

The composer’s final works, set to three poems by Hermann Hesse and one by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, view death not as ...

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Boyd is retired professor at Wayne State University and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan.

In 1903, citizens of Kishinev went on a rampage — a pogrom against the Jews. That pogrom claimed the lives of 49 Jews and ...

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

The museum founder’s life and legacy are celebrated in "ghost story," a new song cycle by Phil Kline that premieres at the ...

A filmmaker and video artist from Lesotho who resides in Berlin, Lemohang Mosese has made belonging and displacement the ...