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 ...

The fact that Nathan Kernan spent three decades writing “A Day Like Any Other” (Farrar Straus and Giroux), which must stand as the definitive biography of American poet James Schuyler (pronounced “SKY ...

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, ...

In the first half of the 20th century, the American poetry landscape was dominated by men: T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams. At mid-century, however, a shift began. In ...

Houston’s Phillis Wheatley High School celebrates its centennial in four years. As with many institutions with long histories, Wheatley High School became its own entity independent of its namesake.