Baron Wormser first gained recognition as a poet, with collections like Good Trembling (Houghton Mifflin, 1985), Atoms, Soul Music and Other Poems (Paris Review Press, 1989), and the award-winning ...

Award-winning poet and translator Erín Moure looks for the future of poetry in its queer and female past by approaching the work of American poets Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld ...

Wasi Shah is a popular Urdu poet, play-wright, and an anchor with a wide fan-following. He has recently brought out an anthology of his verse titled ‘Kulliyat-e-Wasi Shah’ comprising three of his ...

Although a complicated, erring human being is far more interesting than a squeaky-clean legend, finding a balance between candor and gossip is a biographer's first responsibility -- to the subject, to ...

Here’s the third installment in our Pride 2026 books roundup where things get intimately personal with biographies of George Michael, memoirs from Laverne Cox, Frankie Grande, and Phill Branch, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Shortly before her death, the eminently quotable Audre Lorde -- an American original who became a major figure in women's, African-American and lesbian literature -- took the African ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Why and how did Hayim Nahman Bialik become Israel’s national poet? Avner Holtzman, a professor of Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University, ...

ARTery critics Ed Siegel, Lloyd Schwartz, Carol Iaciofano, John Winters and Maureen Dezell share their favorite books of the year. "Self and Soul" by Mark Edmundson. (Courtesy Harvard University Press ...

MR. HONE’S official biography of Yeats has been awaited with great interest by those many readers of poetry who consider Yeats to have been, in T. S. Eliot’s words, “the greatest poet of our time.” ...