We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Since getting into poetry as a teenager, Masaki Takahashi has been performing with a style that bridges the gap between ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life ...

By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous cape as Batman in ...

Some people go through life thick-skinned. School or career has given them a pragmatic, instrumental, efficiency-maximizing ...

Very rarely do people — if you’re not a painter — use paint or brush strokes to communicate basic things. Poetry is unique and distinct in the way it takes everyday material that we’re using all the ...

An atheist explains why his belief that he is his own higher power drives him to do good deeds. Here is a sampling of where ...

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