Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poetry was a kind of revolution; he was a rock star to the Soviet youth movement and a global celebrity.

A poet reading a list of endangered species wonders how differently we might view the threatened species if a few men "found themselves gestating, say, a lemur or a tiny panda."

Democracy needs her poets, in all their diversity, precisely because our hope for survival is in recognizing the reality of one another’s lives.

We shouldn’t give up on poetry, if only because we need a different public language to describe our country.

They could mean all the difference between a robust and creative cultural and intellectual scene and the alternative.

The poet and playwright, who died last week at the age of 87, talked to Bill Moyers in 1988 about the immigrants' view of America and the American dream.

An overview of The Origins of Totalitarianism, by a German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt.

Ben Fink works at Kentucky's Appalshop, a grass-roots multimedia arts center. He writes about how he and his community have been working with each other in the aftermath of the presidential election.

Why this year’s Oscars should be reassuring to those of us floundering in agony in the Trump era.

Watch video from Bill Moyers' 1988 conversation with the playwright behind Fences, a Pulitzer Prize-winning work that was nominated for a number of Oscars this year.