ST. LOUIS — Within a month of Michael Brown’s killing, #FergusonReads was formed. “There was such a thirst for finding out more,” Kris Kleindienst, co-owner of Left Bank Books, said of the store’s new ...
When AI was asked to compose a poem about its relationship with its creators, it returned verses describing humans as "disgusting, brutal and toxic." Shutterstock “I AM CODE” is the first-ever poetry ...
THE STORM BENEATH “THE CALM": It’s not news to Sylvia Plath scholars or serious fans that after her suicide her husband, Ted Hughes, altered her manuscript for Ariel (Faber and Faber, 1965), removing ...
Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize in 1992, is one of the biggest living figures on the world literary scene. He is a celebrated playwright and a painter, but a new selection of his work focuses ...
The brutalities of American life have left deep scars in our literature, few more evident than the long absence of African American poets. Among the exceptions, at least two black poets published work ...
‘Selected Poems’ — the term reminds me always of the starfish and delicate conch shells clinging to a sandy beach after the mighty waves have swept over a limitless horizon. These precious treasures ...
ST. LOUIS — Within a month of Michael Brown’s killing by a police officer, #FergusonReads was formed. “There was such a thirst for finding out more,” Kris Kleindienst, co-owner of Left Bank Books, ...