The Gort girls enjoy an out in fall 2012. From left are Eliza, Violet and Gwendolyn. This is the first part of "Anger. Joy. Forgiveness," a three-part series that offers a very personal account of the ...

Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize in 1992, is one of the biggest living figures on the world literary scene. He is a celebrated playwright and a painter, but a new selection of his work focuses ...

There was anger in my classroom two weeks ago. I allowed my students in the subject “Understanding the Self” to have righteous indignation as we watched the live Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing ...

This April marks two decades since the Academy of American Poets, and readers and writers of poetry everywhere, celebrated the first ever National Poetry Month. And what better way to honor the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — War is an ageless poetic wellspring, yielding wrenching odes to the white heat of combat, the longing for lost loved ones, the dust of graveyards. Now a controversial new ...

The musician and drag queen is an exvangelical who came to see that holding on to a theology of self-loathing was just too dangerous. As Christians, we need to protest authoritarianism and support the ...

These are dark times; our feeds are filled with news of shootings as well as the hateful speech that always results. Every year, writing this preview, I think of how poetry is one of our surest ...

FLINT, MI — Lakayla Watson couldn’t make sense of the deaths of her classmates. The 17-year-old New Standard Academy senior sat on her bed, trying to come to terms with mortality and the loss of ...

Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize in 1992, is one of the biggest living figures on the world literary scene. He is a celebrated playwright and a painter, but a new selection of his work focuses ...