Arts Mar 04 ‘The Insult,’ Lebanon’s first Oscar-nominated film, examines a country’s deepest wounds In “The Insult,” a heated exchange between two men unfurls into a courtroom drama that catapults into the Lebanese national spotlight.
Poetry Feb 26 This poet imagines black victims of police violence ‘alive someplace better’ Danez Smith sees another life for the black victims of police violence: at last living in a world where blackness is celebrated and “everything/is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun.”…
Poetry Feb 19 ‘What we did while we made more guns’ confronts the violence of extreme belief Dorothy Barresi's “What We Did While We Made More Guns” examines Americans’ anxieties and moral uncertainties in poems on international torture, war and police brutality.
Poetry Feb 13 For Valentine’s Day, put down your phone and face your feelings with these poems We are more connected than ever, but poet Matthew Siegel finds it’s made communication and knowing our own feelings more difficult.
Poetry Feb 05 This Osage writer remembers one of the first victims of infamous ‘reign of terror’ Named for the Osage word meaning ‘prayer,’ the poem was Elise Paschen's way of tapping into a tragedy to which she feels intimately linked.
Poetry Feb 02 Feminist poetry is having a renaissance. Here are 3 poets to watch Feminist poetry is flourishing -- particularly for women of color.
Nation Jan 16 The 16 ‘billion dollar disasters’ of 2017 Three massive hurricanes, severe storms and wildfires across the U.S. caused more than $306 billion in damage last year, making 2017 the most expensive year for climate disasters on record.
Nation Jan 16 5 important stories buried by last week’s news These days, it’s hard to stop news from Washington, D.C., from flooding your news feed. We take a moment every week to bring you important stories beyond the White House and the Capitol. Here’s what we’re reading now.
Poetry Jan 08 After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican poets ask again what it means to belong For artists who are both New Yorkers and Puerto Ricans, the concept of identity is fluid and complicated.
Poetry Jan 01 This New Year’s poem honors ‘the wrong roads we’ve taken’ Jimmy Santiago Baca wrote the collection, “Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande” in 2004 after living on the banks of that river. Every morning, he ran through snow, rain and mud in a ritual that he called a spiritual experience.