A tourist who is out of time approaches the end of his or her trip and must return home soon. This is how the Rev. David May ...
As I weaved through the verses, I felt myself steadying on stage, anticipating the next line and delivering it with just the ...
You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.
Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.
Her new work has received reactions ranging from admiration for her introspective themes to some mixed reviews on its overall ...
The album saw Harvey fully embrace her poetic influences, notably on the title track, as well as the opening song ‘Angelene’, which took inspiration from a very specific, meta, poem from the world of ...
A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...
In the first few weeks of the First World War, the British Army requisitioned more than 120,000 horses to serve across the Channel. In four years of conflict, some eight million horses, donkeys and ...
A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.
Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...
Told through the perspective of a teenage John the Apostle, the film follows Jesus Christ’s trajectory from the beginning of ...
A program, "Jewish Poets of the Past," will feature works by the Peruvian-Jewish poet, Inge Strusberg, and the Israeli ...