The door itself makes no promises. It is only a door.

What I love about poetry is that it is both heartbreakingly intimate and public.

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.

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.

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.

French writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy had the surreal experience of talking with author Philip Roth on the day of Trump's inauguration.

In which our columnist rewrites that famous poem by Emma Lazarus at the base of the Statue of Liberty.