Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s book of poems arises from her work as a biographer in the archive of Charmian Kittredge London, the wife of Jack London and also a writer herself, defined by her own life in the ...

ARTery critics Ed Siegel, Lloyd Schwartz, Carol Iaciofano, John Winters and Maureen Dezell share their favorite books of the year. "Self and Soul" by Mark Edmundson. (Courtesy Harvard University Press ...

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 ...

Ian Hamilton, the respected British critic, editor, poet and biographer whose unauthorized book on J.D. Salinger was blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court because it quoted from the novelist’s unpublished ...

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 ...

MR. HONE’S official biography of Yeats has been awaited with great interest by those many readers of poetry who consider Yeats to have been, in T. S. Eliot’s words, “the greatest poet of our time.” ...

Wasi Shah is a popular Urdu poet, playwright, 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 ...

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, ...

This image released by FSg shows book cover art for "Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne" by Katherine Rundell, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. (FSG via AP) 31,136 people played the ...

In the winter of 1949, a group of judges — including poets T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell — met to decide the winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize for the best book of poetry published in the ...