Like many who call Madrid home, Elena Medel was born elsewhere, but forged her identity in the Spanish capital. Here, she recommends books about this city that “refuses to be reduced to an ideal.”
Category: Poetry and Poets
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A Harvard Professor Prepares to Teach a New Subject: Taylor Swift
Swift-inspired classes are sweeping colleges across the country.
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‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey
The experimental documentary is punctuated by Giovanni’s poetry, read both by her and the actress Taraji P. Henson. But the film offers only what the poet is willing to give.
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Read Your Way Through Missoula
Montana calls to storytellers: The cold clear waters of its rivers have carried the voices of its inhabitants from time immemorial, says Debra Magpie Earling, one of its writers. Here, she recommends her favorites.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘To My Surprise, This Charming Man Began to Cry’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Jamila Woods Puts Herself at the Center of “Water Made Us”
“Water Made Us,” a new album due Oct. 13, achieves the musician’s greatest synthesis yet between her voices as a poet and as a songwriter.
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A Poet’s View of the Met From Behind the Information Desk
On and off throughout the 1990s, the poet Robyn Schiff fielded questions — many bathroom-related — as part of her job working the museum’s famous octagonal information desk.
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Werner Herzog Is the Voice of A.I. Poetry
When asked to narrate an audiobook of machine-generated verse, Mr. Herzog readily agreed. “I wasn’t the best choice,” he said. “I was the only choice.”
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Read Your Way Through Appalachia
Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek.”
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Blaise Cendrars’s Eye-Opening Artist’s Book at the Morgan
A travelogue in verse, rich with Sonia Delaunay’s art pyrotechnics, is the centerpiece of one of the most eye-opening shows of the summer.