- April 6, 2017The door itself makes no promises. It is only a door.
- April 5, 2017What I love about poetry is that it is both heartbreakingly intimate and public.
- April 4, 2017Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poetry was a kind of revolution; he was a rock star to the Soviet youth movement and a global celebrity.
- April 4, 2017A 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."
- April 3, 2017Democracy needs her poets, in all their diversity, precisely because our hope for survival is in recognizing the reality of one another’s lives.
- March 31, 2017We shouldn’t give up on poetry, if only because we need a different public language to describe our country.
- March 21, 2017The 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.
- February 25, 2017Watch 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.
- February 1, 2017French writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy had the surreal experience of talking with author Philip Roth on the day of Trump's inauguration.
- January 28, 2017In which our columnist rewrites that famous poem by Emma Lazarus at the base of the Statue of Liberty.