The Woods Hole Woman’s Club will present a program of poetry readings, under the direction of Club member Lalise Melillo, at their upcoming meeting on Tuesday, January 13, at 11:30 ...
A version of this story ran in the March / April 2025 issue. Amanda Johnston learned she would become the 2024 Texas poet laureate via an afternoon cell phone call on an otherwise typical workday in ...
Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poem that ...
It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...
Arundhathi Subramaniam traces a lineage of unruly women mystics in her new book The Gallery of Upside Down Women ...