But behind these numbers, overwhelming in their sheer vastness, are individuals, those whose voices we hear especially ...

time; memory; love. We’re looking at a family portrait. It isn’t a selfie. Someone is behind the camera, a person whose presence quietly suffuses the poem. That would be Mary Oppen.

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In their new collections, Jazz Money and Elfie Shiosaki tackle pressing themes of time, respect and resistance.

The opera “Primero Sueño” translates Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poem about the soul’s journey into a musical promenade ...

A few beautiful people – from restaurateurs and actors to authors and designers, and more –tell us what they look forward to, and wish for you, this year Arundhathi Subramaniam Poet & Writer Winner of ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

But, as I dug a little deeper, I realized it holds a greater message we can all use ... rallies for us all to "live as those who never die." Make the most of today, the poem urges, while keeping ...

“We draw into ourselves every possible bit of bombast. We make ourselves grander than we ought to be because we don’t want to disappear. We don’t want to die. We want to live foreve ...

When I entered the auditorium of my son’s kindergarten in mid-December for the holiday program, I wasn’t expecting to spend the evening fighting back tears. It turns out that each year the ...

We hear the ‘guttering’ and ‘gargling’ of a dying man and almost taste the ‘green sea’ of lethal mustard gas. These ... it time for this to change? I like teaching Owen’s poems ...