In a preface to the collection Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology, the editors April Lindner and Ryan Wilson discuss their criteria for measuring, more or less, what kind of Catholic a poet ...

Among the theme-based Durga Pujas creating ripples among pandal hoppers and art lovers in Kolkata this year is Behala Friends Durga Puja, which highlighted the ongoing humanitarian crisis at Gaza as ...

Matthew McConaughey’s new book, “Poems & Prayers,” was born from the growing disillusionment he felt watching the news over the past few years. The Oscar-winning actor took his book tour to “Fox & ...

When you imagine a lyric video maker, you’re likely to think of music—the boom of the bass in a pop song or the silky flow of rap music. However, what if we crossed that line? What if lyric-like ...

In “Night Watch,” Kevin Young riffs on Dante’s “Inferno” and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation’s past. By Sandra Simonds Sandra Simonds is the author of eight books of poetry and, most ...

ALPENA — Three Midwest poets will be visiting Art in the Loft on Saturday for an evening of poetry reading in downtown Alpena. A Rustblet Poetry Reading, presented in partnership with the Poetics Lab, ...

The title of the book “Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women Two Worlds” suggests a sense of foreboding. But for the two poets in the book, Demetria Martínez and Susan Sherman, those times — in the ...

The United States is a lyric nation. It has a geography suited to epic, and an expanse suited to epic, but it is organized in a lyric way—organizationally, the United States has more in common with ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that ...

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WINCHESTER — A Frederick County girl's poem is being preserved for people around the world to read generations from now. Mara Occhuizzo recently took top honors in the elementary school category in ...