Her new book, “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” is an exploration of what happened to her marriage after she became a well-known poet.
Category: Poetry and Poets
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Rita Dove and the Younger Poet Who ‘Electrified’ Her
Rita Dove taught Safiya Sinclair that “it’s OK to say a thing plainly.”
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What a U.S. Poet Laureate Wants to Pass Down
Joy Harjo’s work is rooted in the Native community, a respect that’s shared by the poet and writer Layli Long Soldier.
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Lucinda Williams Tells Her Secrets
The singer-songwriter reveals herself in a memoir that captures her adventures with charming rogues, puzzled music executives and her own demons.
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Solange Curates Powerful Performances of Black Joy and Pain at BAM
Through Saint Heron, the musician brought Angélla Christie and the Clark Sisters for a night exploring Black religious music, and Linda Sharrock and Archie Shepp for a show that felt anything but safe.
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Keith Reid, Who Brought Poetry to Procol Harum, Dies at 76
He did not perform with the group, but his impressionistic words made it one of the leading acts of the progressive-rock era.
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Following a Folk Tale Through the Himalayas
On a trip through northern India, a writer was guided by the age-old epic story of “Rajula Malushahi,” which led him to a series of unexpected places.
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The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know
A guide to some of the undervalued 20th-century works that testify to the richness of the Black American literary archive.
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Could the Next Great Author Be a Robot? We Asked (Human) Writers.
At the PEN America Literary Awards, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman and others discussed the role A.I. could play in literature.
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Building a New Canon of Black Literature
What older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered?
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‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale
The Jewish Museum surveys one of the grandest families of the 19th century: a hemisphere-spanning dynasty of merchants, poets, soldiers and socialites (oh, and also drug lords).