Critics, reporters and editors who cover arts and culture spent months creating, revising and arguing over this list, as well as consulting historians, curators and other experts. July 15, 2026 Are we ...

The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America, by Edward White. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 400 pages. $30. The reputation of the New York writer and salonnier Carl Van Vechten is ...

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris ...

Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally beyond.Poetry Moment ...

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.

The Nation welcomes unsolicited poetry submissions. You may send up to three poems at a time, but no more than 6 poems a year. No previously published works, please. Submissions can be sent via ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Questions of Travel,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and his own poem “My Father in English.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I Catch Sight of the ...

The man who died after being shot in south Dublin on Sunday has been named locally as Mark Cullen, who was 39. Cullen was shot in the leg on Kill Avenue in Dún Laoghaire and bled to death on the scene ...

Since March 2020, the lives of billions of children been turned upside down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Today, children around the world are still out of school and experiencing the effects of ...

Slow and steady wins the race: Small-town doctor/immortal blood-sucking monster has amassed 11-figure fortune the old-fashion way, by banking a small sum in 1670 and witnessing the miracle of ...

July 29, 2026 • Richard Blanco joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Questions of Travel,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and his own poem, “My Father in English.” Blanco is the author of two memoirs and four ...