His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such ...

A decade and a half ago, a filmmaker friend decided to become a world cinema auteur. Their chosen film school: the Mumbai Film Festival, MAMI, where they watche ...

Christmas is many things, not least an opportunity to remember past years, celebrations and people. With this offering, we’re ...

For author and theatre personality TT Srinath, poetry begins with being alive in the moment. His recently released book of ...

I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure ...

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Help! It’s almost Christmas and I need really cheap and easy presents for my immediate family (six people), plus two grandparents. I’ve been stupidly dragging my feet, ...

Amplifying sacred voicesThe new book also marks the culmination of a long engagement with accounts of women mystics she’s written about, in her earlier books,&n ...

Founded in 2024, Island Verse is a nonprofit dedicated to honoring and amplifying the island voices of the Pacific Northwest. We bring poetry, storytelling and performance into schools and community ...

When Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a poem that would change the course of his life. “Let us go then, you and I, ...

Enid Osborn’s new poetry collection, Pedregosa St., is a special volume of poetry which spans 28 years of living in a hundred ...