People lift lanterns into the night sky during the Yi Peng Festival on Saturday in Chiang Mai, Thailand. During the festival, lanterns are launched into the night sky in the belief that grief and misfortune will fly away with them.

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After Sandy, Poet Describes 'What It Means to Stand in the Rubble of Your Life'…

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Jennifer Fitzgerald reads two poems about Hurricane Sandy: "I Was Raised on an Island" and "What It Means to Rise."…

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Book Offers Portrait of Prolific Photographer Who Captured Native American Lives…

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Poet Joy Harjo Reads a Thanksgiving Poem…

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It's time for another Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo. After looking at Jonathan Nackstrand's intense photo above, you might be thinking, can't we get through Thanksgiving first before we think…

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Prize-winning Jack Gilbert died last week at the age of 87 after suffering for years from Alzheimer's disease. His many honors include the Yale Younger Poets prize for his 1962 debut "Views of Jeopardy" and a National Book Critics Circle…

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A woman views "Forehead" by Jake and Dinos Chapman in the "Perfect Place to Grow" exhibition at the Royal College of Art in London. The exhibition, which celebrates the school's 175th anniversary, features more than 350 works of art and…

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Paul Huang's recent debut concert at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., began with Beethoven. The 22-year-old violinist and winner of the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions kicked off a new Virtuoso Series by the Washington…

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Some 2,000 South Korean volunteers make 140 tons of kimchi, a traditional dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, in a park in Seoul on Thursday. City officials will hand out kimchi to about 14,000 poor households in an event…

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