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 ...

We love the legend of the mad genius, the artist whose unchained mind offers the clearest view of the truth of our world. There is plenty of indication that many of history’s great poets and prophets ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We learn little of Dante’s quotidian existence by reading his work. In medieval literature the writer was reluctant to discuss his personal life unless doing so served a useful purpose to others.

Filmmaker Paul B. Preciado’s literate ode to the many Orlandos who walk the world is playful, urgent and brilliantly innovative in its way of exploring transgender identity. Virginia Woolf‘s “Orlando: ...

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 ...