A book of interviews with the composer John Cage by Richard Kostelanetz, “Conversing with Cage.” Very inspiring. Q. Do you remember the first book that made an impact on you?

We first met when I fled a disastrous first marriage in Pittsburgh for Manhattan. I scored a tiny shoebox of an apartment, and even better, I scored Anna as my first new friend. When she knocked on my ...

As weather on campus finally made it out of the negatives, The Gund’s Community Foundation Theater housed a dynamic reading and conversation on Monday to highlight the work of Robert P. Hubbard ...

Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.

Minneapolis poet laureate Junauda Petrus recalls meeting Renee Good at an elementary school poetry workshop and shares how her hometown is building off a history of organizing.

The result was Poems on the Underground, a project that turns 40 this year and has been copied in cities around the world.

Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London, started the Poems on the Underground project 40 years ago. She wondered if poetry could enlighten and inspire subway riders. Millions of ...

A once-promising writer learns some painful lessons in a tragicomic Colombian tale.

"I Am Child, I Am Mother" -- The solo exhibition by artist Rachel Borntrager explores where line and color become language ...

Poetry events kicked up after a slight respite for the holidays. I attended the Blue Whale Reading two weeks ago, featuring ...

In 'The Flower Bearers', Rachel Eliza Griffiths chronicles two transformative relationships, revealing the beauty and pain of ...

In his first collection in 11 years, the writer conjures his youth and family, elegises old friends, and hints at sensual ...