As John Keating said in Dead Poets Society, "We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry ...

Jack McCarthy once brought a Worcester crowd to a standing ovation with an epic poem about Latin class. The poem was titled ...

I felt resolved to read Paddy’s poems as my New Year’s ... memories of him as my athletic coach as a boy. I thought, what better way to start the new year on the Gulf Coast than with a book ...

Over a half-million people took their first steps on American soil on Angel Island. A century later, the museum hopes to ...

A daring visual approach powers a gorgeous film about an ugly chapter in history.

On a serene Saturday evening along King’s Cross Road, Purist Gallery’s group exhibition Paradox and poem-objects is showing ...

Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” is such a film—one that proclaims its ambition by the events and themes that it takes on, ...

Pet O’Connell rounds up a selection of the latest children’s books, featuring history, rhymes, and the surreal ...

The Giller Prize is back with its monthly book club series. This year's edition of the Giller Book Club features the authors ...

"Death, death to Saddam!" chanted Imam Husham Al-Husainy through a megaphone at a pro-war rally broadcast by C-SPAN in Washington, D.C., in October 2002, countering a nearby anti-war rally as the ...

DEGGANS: That is Amanda Gorman, poet and author with illustrator Loveis Wise of the new children's picture book "Girls On The Rise." Thanks for joining us, Amanda. GORMAN: Thanks for having me.

I woke up this morning at 4 a.m., as I do almost every Tuesday to bring you this weekly newsletter, with the half-awake realization that I’ve now survived 66 years on Planet Earth. But just barely, it ...