Politics
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Still Revolutionary at Age 100
Mar 24, 2019 The legendary poet, who is now 100 years old, can be described by nearly enough epithets for every year he's been alive.2019 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award: First Place, Celebrity Feature
In Hawaii, an End of Innocence
Jul 18, 2018 In her poem "Sweet Leilani," Sara Simone Wagner speaks for many residents of Hawaii's Big Island who are adjusting to the reality of an ongoing volcanic disaster.
The Land Between Two Rivers
Mar 2, 2018 Tom Sleigh travels to war zones and refugee camps, yet views intervention on his part as transgression. When does passivity become complicity?
Chris Hedges, Gerald Stern: The Poet in Technocratic Society (Video)
Dec 6, 2017 "We've lost a voice that is unafraid to speak truth to power, and that longs to do that," the award-winning poet tells Hedges.
‘A Single Step’: A Poem on ‘Treacherous Journey’ From Haiti to the U.S.
Oct 4, 2017 Hawa Allan's verses breathe life into headlines about the travails Haitian migrants face as they cross from Brazil to Mexico and on to the U.S.
‘Hemispheres’: A Poem About Syrian Refugee Crisis (Audio)
Sep 13, 2017 Michael E. Woods' moving verses provide a look at how Germany is handling the situation.
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Aug 11, 2017 This new biography is the masterpiece that the gadfly of youthful America deserves.
Tracy K. Smith Is Named 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate
Jun 14, 2017 The Princeton University professor and Pulitzer Prize winner says she plans to bring poetry events "to parts of the country where literary festivals don’t always go."
The Artist as Prophet
May 29, 2017 Artists who tell the truth are the mortal enemies of despots, who seek to distort the past, the present and the future.
On the Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Apr 7, 2017 The “poetician, not politician” always seemed conscious of the Russian adage that a great writer is more than a writer—he is a second government (Yevtushenko is pictured here with Katrina vanden Heuvel) The “poetician, not politician” always seemed conscious of the Russian adage that a great writer is more than a writer—he is a second government).