The White House has issued a cutting response to Joan Baez’s new poem speculating that a “little green worm” may have eaten ...

Two new books of Jewish poetry form a bridge to the aftermath of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom — and also speak to us today.

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With previously uncollected or unpublished works, a definitive edition deepens our understanding of the Nobel laureate’s ...

Jordan believed poetry had the power to teach and educate, and she did not shy away from difficult word choices to appease ...

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Poet Gerda Govine Ituarte, who lives in Jamul with her husband, artist Luis Ituarte, has written and contributed to multiple ...

Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

Two short essays, translated into English for the first time, offer a coda on the late writer’s life-long preoccupations ...

Joan Baez, in her new poem published through Rolling Stone on October 23, said that "a little green worm" has eaten U.S.

This article appears in the December 2025 print edition with the headline “Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention.” ...