After decades of teaching girls the structure and subtleties of fiction and poetry at Stuart Country Day School in Princeton, ...

It feels lovely to be embraced by both aspects of self. My Caribbeanness, my Americanness, which is very much what the book ...

Enigmatic ol’ Ezra Pound. Years after crafting the lines from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley quoted above, he found himself distinctly ...

I have been avoiding writing this column because I want to write about Advent, and this Sunday's Advent theme is peace. And ...

The Irish singer's festive track was ignored when it was first released 50 years ago – now it's his most recognised song ...

Our world right now seems especially fragile. Silicon Valley tech oligarchs are giving lectures on the Antichrist even while ...

I have been avoiding writing this column because I want to write about Advent, and this Sunday's Advent theme is peace. And peace feels complicated to me this season, which is an oxymoron.

Just across in County Roscommon, I headed to the Arigna Mining Experience, which brings to life over 400 years of iron and ...

COMMENTARY: Great literature shows us who we are. It is like a mirror that shows us ourselves. It shows us our character, our ...

Three hundred people filled the Merrill Cultural Center to hear celebrated poet Ellen Bass deliver the keynote presentation ...

Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for ...